Before You Begin

Before you create a Veeam Agent backup job in the Veeam Backup & Replication console, check the following prerequisites:

• The Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows license must be installed in Veeam Backup & Replication.
• The target location where you plan to store backup files must have enough free space.
• Protection groups that you want to add to the job must be configured in advance.

Veeam Agent backup jobs have the following limitations:

• [For Veeam Agent backup job managed by backup server] You can create Veeam Agent backups on a Veeam backup repository only. Other types of target locations are not supported.
• [For Veeam Agent backup job managed by Veeam Agent] You cannot save the backup of entire computer on the local computer disk. Use an external hard drive or USB drive, network shared folder or backup repository as a target location.
• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows does not support file-level backup for backup jobs that include clusters.
• Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows does not back up data to which symbolic links are targeted. It only backs up the path information that the symbolic links contain. After restore, identical symbolic links are created in the restore destination.

• After you start managing a Veeam Agent computer with Veeam Backup & Replication, data backup for this computer is performed by a backup job configured in Veeam Backup & Replication. Veeam Agent running on the computer starts a new backup chain on a target location specified in the backup job settings. You cannot continue the existing backup chain that was created by Veeam Agent operating in the standalone mode.

• You cannot map a Veeam Agent backup job configured in Veeam Backup & Replication to a Veeam Agent backup chain created by a standalone Veeam Agent on a backup repository.
• The backup cache is not supported for Veeam Agent backup jobs configured in Veeam Backup & Replication.
• You cannot use a Veeam Cloud Connect repository or Microsoft OneDrive storage as a target for a Veeam Agent backup job configured in Veeam Backup & Replication.