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Manage backup jobs
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Manage backup jobs

Create a task⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Press Create.
  4. In the Job Settings step, enter a job name and description.
  5. In the Retention policy box, specify the number of recovery points or days of data retention.
  6. Press Next.
  7. At the Virtual Machines step, click Add.
  8. Select the virtual machines, vApp, or organization for which you are configuring backups.
  9. Press OK.
  10. Optional: To remove an individual virtual machine from backup, click Exclusions → Add and select the VM.
  11. Press 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 transactional-consistent backup when there are no transactional applications on the VM, for example, for common file servers.
  13. Optional: To enable file searching in backups, check the Enable guest file system indexing checkbox. You can search and restore files without enabling this feature.
  14. If you checked at least one checkbox in the Guest Processing step, enter credentials in the Guest OS credentials box.
  15. Press Next.
  16. In the Job Schedule step, configure a schedule for automatic backups.
  17. Press Next.
  18. Optional: on the Email Notifications step, check the Enable e-mail notifications checkbox and configure to send notifications about the status of backup tasks.
  19. Press Finish.

Start a job⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Start.

Restart the job⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Jobs → Restart.

Make an active full backup on task⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Jobs → Active Full.

Edit job⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Click Jobs → Edit.

Disable task⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Jobs → Disable.

Delete job⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Jobs → Delete.

Download the job list in Excel⁠

  1. Open the Veeam Backup & Replication portal. You can access the portal from Control Panel: VMware-based Cloud → Backup → Customize Backup.
  2. Open the Jobs tab.
  3. Mark the assignment.
  4. Press Export.