Scheduled LinkDB rebuid | Success completion

Question

I have used Sitecore scheduler to schedule a Powershell task. The task rebuilds the Link databases of Master and Core.

As the tasks are long-running, I am running them as Async. So in the logs, we have just 2 entries, almost simultaneously.

Is there any way we can identify if the rebuild is complete successfully in the backend?

Edit1: Code used:

$database = Get-Database -Name "core"
[Sitecore.Globals]::LinkDatabase.Rebuild($database)
$database = Get-Database -Name "master"
[Sitecore.Globals]::LinkDatabase.Rebuild($database)

Answer 1

You can update your code in PowerShell something like this that will write a log for you once the Rebuild Link Databases task will be finished for all the databases. Her is the code snippets.

foreach($database in Get-Database) {
    if(!$database.ReadOnly) {
        
        Write-Log "Rebuilding the $($database) link database."
        
        $time = Measure-Command {
            [Sitecore.Globals]::LinkDatabase.Rebuild($database)
        }
        
        Write-Log "Completed rebuilding the $($database) link database in $($time.TotalSeconds) seconds."
    }
}

It will create a log file in your App_Data folder.

And the logs will be written something like this.

ManagedPoolThread #17 13:42:12 INFO  Rebuilding the master link database.
ManagedPoolThread #17 13:42:49 INFO  Completed rebuilding the master link database in 37.7867178 seconds.
ManagedPoolThread #17 13:42:49 INFO  Rebuilding the web link database.
ManagedPoolThread #17 13:43:28 INFO  Completed rebuilding the web link database in 38.3885773 seconds.
ManagedPoolThread #17 13:43:28 INFO  Rebuilding the core link database.
ManagedPoolThread #17 13:44:26 INFO  Completed rebuilding the core link database in 58.6195402 seconds.

I think this way you can make sure that your Rebuild Link Databases task has been successfully completed.

Hope this will help.