Best practice
Create one or more Microsoft 365 groups with the users of the organization you want to protect. Through Veeam Service Provider Console, create a backup job for each group. You will have several benefits:
- all users in a specific group will have the same policy;
- you can add users to the group and protect them without having to create specific backup jobs each time;
- you can remove users from the group without worrying about deleting their backup jobs.
To create a backup job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- in the left menu, select Management > Backup jobs;
- click on Create Job among the available options in the horizontal menu;
- from the list that appears, select Backup Job;
- you will access the New Backup Job section, where the following information is required:
- Job Name
- Name - assign a name to the job;
- Description - optionally, add a description;
- Organization
if you have only one organization, it will be automatically selected, and you can skip this step;
if you have multiple organizations, choose the one for which you want to create the backup job;
- Backup Mode
select which objects to protect
- Backup scope
- Entire organization - create a job for the entire organization (all users and services);
- Backup the specified object - filter and specify which objects to protect;
- Exclusions
- Specify the object to exclude from the backup - allows you to exclude specific objects;
- Backup Repository
indicate where to save the backups
- by selecting the Select... option, you will see the section on Available Repositories where you must specify which repository to use;
- Summary
informative page of the settings chosen for the job
- Start the job when I click finish - if this option is checked, it will start the job at the end of the creation process;
if it is not selected, the job will be executed during the chosen time slot at the time of creating the Backup for Microsoft 365 account in the Control Panel;
- click on Finish to complete the configuration;
- click on Management > Backup Jobs in the left menu;
- now the job will be included in the list.