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Removing Veeam Backup Agent Jobs

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If you no longer want to protect data of a managed computer, you can remove a backup job configuration.

Required Privileges

To perform this task, a user must have one of the following roles assigned: Company Owner, Location Administrator.

Removing Veeam Backup Agent Job

To remove a job configuration from Veeam backup agent:

For details, see Accessing Veeam Availability Console.

In the menu on the left, click Backup Jobs.
Open the Managed Backup Agents tab.
Choose the necessary computer in the list and click a link in the Successful Jobs column.
In the Agent Jobs window, select one or more jobs that you want to remove and click Delete Job.
In the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete to confirm removal.

[For Veeam backup agents version 3.0 or later] If the backup job is pointed to a cloud repository, you can select if you want to remove backup files, created by this job:

To delete the backup job and all backup files, in the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete All.
To delete only the backup job and keep the backup files in the cloud, in the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete Job.

Other Ways to Remove Veeam Backup Agent Job Settings

You can configure Veeam backup agent job settings in the list of discovered computers:

For details, see Accessing Veeam Availability Console.

In the menu on the left, click Managed Computers.

Open the Discovered Backup Agents tab.
Choose the necessary computer in the list and click a link in the Backup Policy column.
In the Assigned Backup Policies window, select one of more jobs that you want to remove and click Delete Job.
In the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete to confirm removal.

[For Veeam backup agents version 3.0 or later] If the backup job is pointed to a cloud repository, you can select if you want to remove backup files, created by this job:

To delete the backup job and all backup files, in the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete All.
To delete only the backup job and keep the backup files in the cloud, in the Delete Backup Job window, click Delete Job.