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Start a Veeam backup agent Job

You can start Veeam backup agent job with the specified system ID.

Request

To start an idle job, send the POST HTTPS request to the URL of the /backupAgents/{id}/jobs/{id}/start resource.

HTTP Request

POST https://<hostname>:1281/v2/backupAgents/{id}/jobs/{id}/start

Request Headers

The request header must contain the authorization token.

Response

The server returns the following response to the client.

Response Code

A successfully completed operation returns response code 200 OK.

Response Headers

The response to this request contains the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTP headers.

Header	Description
Content-length	The length of the response body.
Content-type	The media type and syntax of the request body message: application/json; charset=utf-8

Response Body

In the response body, Veeam Service Provider Console returns a message for an action.

Example Start a Veeam backup agent Job

The following example returns a response on a start action for a backup job with ID 4610eb17-b41c-4cc5-81d1-938ee6d89b7a.