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How to Create New Backup Job Veeam

Create New Backup Job, in this article I will explain how to create a new backup job in Veeam Backup & Replication for taking backup of the virtual machine. Please find below the steps to configure a backup job to create a Virtual Machine Backup job in Veeam Backup and Replication.

Create New Backup Job Veeam

1- Open the Veeam Backup and Replication console, Select the Home tab, click on the Backup Job tab and then click Virtual Machine.

veeam console

2- New Backup job wizard, type a backup job name, description, and then click on the next button.

veeam new backup job name

3- We need to add Virtual Machine, which you need to take a backup so click on the add button.

new backup job virtual machine

4- Add object windows pop up, select VMs and Templates, expend the vcenter datastore and then select the Virtual Machine you want to take backup and click on add button.

new backup job add object

5- Click Next.

new backup job virtual machine

6- Select a backup repository to restore the virtual machine backup files.
Select retention policy restores points.
Select keep certain full backups longer for archival purposes and then click on the configure button.

veeam new backup job storage

7- Configure GFS weeks, months, years and then click OK.

veeam new backup job gfs

8- After configuring GFS click next

veeam new backup job storage

9- New backup job wizard, Guest Processing option so here you can select enable application-aware processing and enable guest file system indexing options.
Select guest OS credentials for the virtual machine you want to backup and then click on the next button.

veeam new backup job guest processing

10- Specify the backup job schedule option when you want to backup, select the Automatic retry (retry failed items processing) and then click on apply.

veeam new backup job schedule

11- Veeam new backup job summary verifies the job summary. If you want to run a backup job now then select run the job when I click the finish option. Or leave it if you want to run job as scheduled or manually and then click on finish.

veeam new backup job summary

12- Select newly created job and then click active full.

veeam console

13- Click Yes

run job now

14- Now new backup job is in progress.

veeam backup job progress

15- New backup job successfully completed

veeam job successful

Also read: How to Create Backup Copy Job in Veeam Backup.

For more details, please visit Veeam

Jamil Parvez

Jamil Pervez works as a Network Administrator, based in Kuwait with a Primary focus on Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Certified MCSE, MCTP, MCITP, CCNP, CCIP, CCVP with 20 years of experience in administering Windows Servers, Exchange, VMWare, Veeam B&R, Veritas BackupExec.

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