Step 14. Specify Advanced Job Settings

Note:

• Before scheduling periodic full backups, you must make sure that you have enough free space on the target location. As an alternative, you can create active full backups manually when needed.
• If you schedule the active full backup and synthetic full backup on the same day, Veeam backup agent will perform only active full backup. Synthetic full backup will be skipped.

Note:

• You cannot specify encryption options for the backup job if you have chosen to save backup files on a Veeam backup repository. Encryption options for Veeam backup agent jobs targeted at a Veeam Backup & Replication repository are managed by a backup administrator working with Veeam Backup & Replication. To learn more, refer to the Veeam Backup & Replication documentation at https://www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html.
• If you lose a password that was specified for encryption, you can change the password in the encryption settings. After the backup job creates a new restore point encrypted with the new password, you will be able to use this password to restore data form all restore points in the backup chain, including those restore points that were encrypted with an old password.
• If you enable encryption for the existing backup job that has already created one or more restore points, during the next job session, Veeam backup agent will create active full backup. The created full backup file and subsequent incremental backup files in the backup chain will be encrypted with the specified password.
• Encryption is not retroactive. If you enable encryption for the existing backup job, Veeam backup agent does not encrypt the previous backup chain created with this job.