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Deleting Backup Job

You can delete a backup job configured in Veeam Agent for Linux. When you delete a backup job, backup files created by this job remain intact in the backup repository.

You can delete backup jobs in one of the following ways:

In the Veeam Agent control panel
In the Veeam Agent command line interface

Deleting Backup Job in Control Panel

To delete a backup job using the Veeam Agent control panel, do the following:

Launch the Veeam Agent control panel with the veeam or veeamconfig ui command.
Press the [C] key to open the Select job to configure dialog window or the [S] key to open the Select job to start dialog window.
Select the necessary backup job in the list and press [Delete].
In the displayed notification window, make sure that the Yes button is selected and press [Enter].

Deleting Backup Job in Command Line Interface

To delete a backup job in the Veeam Agent command line interface, use the following command:

veeamconfig job delete --name <job_name>

veeamconfig job delete --id <job_id>

where:

<job_name> — name of the backup job that you want to delete.
<job_id> — ID of the backup job that you want to delete.

For example:

$ veeamconfig job delete --name SystemBackup