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title: "Managing backup jobs"
sidebar_label: "Managing backup jobs"
description: "How to create a backup job, run, restart, edit it, and other instructions"
sidebar_position: 2
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# Managing backup jobs

## Create a job \{#create-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Click **Create**.
4. At the **Job Settings** step, enter the job name and description.
5. In the **Retention policy** block, specify the number of restore points or days to keep the data.
6. Click **Next**.
7. At the **Virtual Machines** step, click **Add**.
8. Select the virtual machines, vApp, or organization for which you are configuring the backup.
9. Click **OK**.
10. Optional: to exclude a specific virtual machine from the backup, click **Exclusions** → **Add** and select the VM.
11. Click **Next**.
12. Optional: to create a transactionally consistent backup for applications on Windows VMs compatible with MS VSS (Volume Shadow Copy Service), at the **Guest Processing** step, select the **Enable application-aware image-processing** checkbox. We recommend creating a transactionally consistent backup if there are no transactional applications on the VM, for example, for regular file servers.
13. Optional: to enable file search in backups, check the **Enable guest file system indexing** checkbox. You can search for and restore files without enabling this function.
14. If you checked at least one box at the **Guest Processing** step, enter the credentials in the **Guest OS credentials** block.
15. Click **Next**.
16. At the **Job Schedule** step, configure the schedule for automatic backups.
17. Click **Next**.
18. Optional: at the **Email Notifications** step, check the **Enable e-mail notifications** checkbox and configure email notifications about the status of backup tasks.
19. Click **Finish**.

## Run a job \{#start-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Start**.

## Restart a job \{#restart-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Jobs** → **Restart**.

## Run an active full backup for a job \{#active-full}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Jobs** → **Active Full**.

## Edit a job \{#edit-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Jobs** →  **Edit**.

## Disable a job \{#disable-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Jobs** → **Disable**.

## Delete a job \{#delete-task}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Jobs** → **Delete**.

## Download the job list in Excel \{#download-tasks}

1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can go to the portal from the [control panel](https://my.selectel.ru/vmware/public/default/backup): in the top menu, click **Products** →  **VMware-based Cloud** →  **Backup**.
2. Open the **Jobs** tab.
3. Select the job.
4. Click **Export**.

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