How to create a backup job
Best practices
Create one or more Microsoft 365 groups containing the users in your organization that you want to protect. Use Veeam Service Provider Console to create a backup job for each group. This offers several advantages:
- all users in a given group will have the same retention 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 having to worry about deleting the corresponding backup jobs.
To create a backup job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- select Create Job from the horizontal menu;
- select Backup Job;
- in the New Backup Job section, complete the following steps:
- Job Name
- Name - enter a name for the job;
- Description - enter a description, if necessary;
- Organization
- if you have only one organization, it is selected automatically;
- if you have multiple organizations, select the one for which you want to create the backup job.
- Backup Mode - specify the objects to protect:
- Backup scope
- Entire organization - to protect the entire organization, including all users and services;
- Backup the specified object - to select the objects to protect;
- Exclusions
- Specify object to exclude from the backup - to exclude specific objects from the backup.
- Backup Repository - specify where to store the backups:
- select Select...;
- in the Available Repositories section, select the repository to use.
- Summary - review the selected settings:
- select Start the job when I click finish to start the job when creation is complete;
- if you do not select this option, the job will run during the time window selected for the Backup for Microsoft 365 account.
- select Finish to complete the configuration;
- go to Management > Backup Jobs: the newly created job will appear in the list.
How to manually run a backup job
To manually run a backup job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- locate the job you want to run;
- select the corresponding checkbox;
- select Start from the horizontal menu;
- the job will start.
How to edit a backup job
To edit a backup job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- locate the job you want to edit;
- select the corresponding checkbox;
- select Edit from the horizontal menu;
- make the required changes by following the procedure displayed.
How to delete a backup job
Before deleting a backup job, make sure it does not have an associated backup copy job. If one exists, you must first
delete the backup copy job.
To delete a backup job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- locate the job you want to delete;
- select the corresponding checkbox;
- select Remove from the horizontal menu;
- follow the instructions to complete the deletion.
How to create a backup copy job
To create a backup copy job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- locate the backup job for which you want to create a second copy and select the corresponding checkbox;
- select Create Job from the horizontal menu;
- select Backup Copy Job;
- in the New Backup Copy Job section, complete the following steps:
- Target Repository
- from the Backup repository list, select the repository to use. Only the repository not used by the first-copy backup job will be displayed;
- Summary
- review the selected settings;
- select Start the job when I click finish to start the job when creation is complete;
- if you do not select this option, the job will run during the time window selected for the Backup for Microsoft 365 account.
- select Finish to complete the configuration;
- go to Management > Backup Jobs: the backup copy job will appear in the list.
Once a backup copy job has been created, it runs automatically whenever a change is detected in the first copy.
How to delete a backup copy job
To delete a backup copy job, follow these steps:
- access Veeam Service Provider Console;
- from the menu on the left, select Management > Backup jobs;
- locate the backup copy job you want to delete;
- select the corresponding checkbox;
- select Remove from the horizontal menu;
- follow the instructions to complete the deletion.