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(POST) /Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs

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Creates a backup job for the organization with a specified ID.

Request

To create a backup job for the organization added to Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365, send the POST HTTPS request to the URL of the /Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs resource.

HTTPS Request

POST https://<Backup-Office365>:4443/v3/Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs

Request Headers

The request header must contain the authorization token for the current logon session.

Request Body

The request body must contain the following properties:

Property	Type	Description
Name	string	Specifies the name of the backup job. For example, "name": "Backup Job ABC".
Description	string	Specifies the description of the backup job. For example, "description": "Critical Mailboxes".
BackupType	backupType	Specifies the type of the backup job: entireOrganization selectedItems
SchedulePolicy	SchedulePolicy	Specifies the backup job scheduling options.
ProxyId	string	Specifies the ID of the backup proxy where the repository with backups is located. For example, "proxyId": "5a905bb5-9071-433c-9d2f-f805d4da2cf4".
RepositoryId	string	Specifies the ID of the repository where the organization backups will be stored. For example, "repositoryId": "a740fb93-4de8-4de4-977e-765dd092748f".
RunNow	bool	If set to True, the job will run right after it is created. For example, "RunNow": "true".

SchedulePolicy

Specify the following properties for the backup job schedule:

Property	Type	Description
Type	string	Specifies the job schedule type: Daily: runs the backup job on specific days. Periodically: runs the backup job repeatedly throughout a day with a specific time interval. For example, "type": "daily".
DailyType	string	Specifies the days when the backup job will run: Everyday Weekends Workdays Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday For example, "dailyType": "Sunday".
DailyTime	UTC	Specifies the time when the job will start. For example, "dailyTime": "08:00:00"
PeriodicInterval	string	Specifies the time interval between the job runs: Minutes5 Minutes10 Minutes15 Minutes30 Hours1 Hours2 Hours4 Hours8 For example, "periodicallyEvery": "Hours1".
BackupWindowEnabled	bool	If set to True, indicates that a backup window feature is enabled for this job. For example, "backupWindowEnabled": "true".
BackupWindowSettings	BackupWindowSettings	Specifies the job's backup window settings. A backup window is a time period within which the job must be completed.
RetryEnabled	bool	If set to True, indicates that Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 will attempt to restart a backup job if it fails for some reason. For example, "retryEnabled": "true".
RetryNumber	int	Specifies the number of attempts to run the backup job. For example, "retryNumber": 5.
RetryWait Interval	int	Specifies the time intervals between the job retry attempts (minutes). For example, "retryWaitInterval": 15.

For example:

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": true,

"backupWindowSettings": {

"backupWindow": [

true,

...

true

"minuteOffset": 0

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Wednesday",

"dailyTime": "08:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

BackupWindowSettings

Specify the following property for the job's backup window:

Property	Type	Description
BackupWindow	bool	Specifies an hourly scheme for the backup window. The scheduling scheme consists of 168 boolean elements. These elements can be logically divided into 7 groups by 24. Each group represents a day of the week starting from Sunday. Each element represents a backup hour: True - the allowed backup hour False - the prohibited backup hour For example, to allow a backup job to run only on Sundays, set the first 24 elements to True.
MinuteOffset	int	Specifies the current minute offset from the UTC time. For example, "minuteOffset": 15.

Property

Type

Description

BackupWindow

bool

Specifies an hourly scheme for the backup window. The scheduling scheme consists of 168 boolean elements. These elements can be logically divided into 7 groups by 24. Each group represents a day of the week starting from Sunday. Each element represents a backup hour:

True - the allowed backup hour
False - the prohibited backup hour

For example, to allow a backup job to run only on Sundays, set the first 24 elements to True.

MinuteOffset

int

Specifies the current minute offset from the UTC time.

For example, "minuteOffset": 15.

For example:

"backupWindowSettings": {

"backupWindow": [

true,

false,

false

}

Response

The server returns the following response to the client.

Response Codes

A successfully completed operation returns response code 201 Created.

Response Headers

The response to this request contains the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTPS 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, the server returns a representation of the /Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs resource. The resource has the following URL: /Jobs/{id}.

Example 1

The example below shows how to backup an entire organization with ID 9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd.

Request:

POST https://support.east.local:4443/v3/Organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd/Jobs

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"name": "job office365",

"description": "",

"backupType": "EntireOrganization",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"RepositoryId": "2c9079b0-76b4-415f-bca8-de1450cedf79"

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f",

"name": "job office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-06-01T08:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "EntireOrganization",

"lastStatus": "Stopped",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25287149141f"

"organization": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/organizations/9b538005-3e68-4263-a84e-cc40630747be"

"backupRepository": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/backuprepositories/ce18de31-329d-4f0f-b85e-4424cc2e6821"

"jobsessions": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-42e6-bab7-25387149141f/jobsessions"

"excludedItems": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f/excludedItems"

}

Example 2

The example below shows how to backup selected items of an organization with ID 9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd.

Request:

POST https://support.east.local:4443/v3/Organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd/Jobs

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"name": "job SelectedItems office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-05-29T22:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "SelectedItems",

"SelectedItems":

[

{

"Type": "PartialOrganization",

"Mailbox": true,

"ArchiveMailbox": true,

"OneDrive": true,

"Site": true

{

"Type": "User",

"User": {

"id": "b583d2b8-c143-4b98-a769-fc95ebaa45f600000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName": "USER1",

"name": "USER1@organization.onmicrosoft.com",

"type": "User",

"isBackedUp": false

"Mailbox": true,

"ArchiveMailbox": true,

"OneDrive": true,

"Site": true

{

"Type": "Group",

"Group": {

"id": "ca4b3d46-640f-4353-b59b-5beff743ca4c00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName": "user 1550",

"name": "user1550@organization.onmicrosoft.com",

"managedBy": "USER1",

"site": "https://organization.sharepoint.com/sites/SomeSite",

"type": "Office365",

"locationType": "Cloud",

"isBackedup": false

"Members": true,

"MemberMail": true,

"MemberArchive": false,

"MemberOnedrive": true,

"MemberSite": false,

"Mail": true,

"Site": false

{

"Type": "Site",

"Site": {

"id": "94f50108-75b4-4a5e-89ae-5651ee1e3975fdc607c4-6ac6-47d9-a1f3-cbdbc9766174",

"url": "https://organization.sharepoint.com/sites/group2",

"name": "Group 2",

"isCloud": true,

"title": "Group 2",

"isBackedup": false,

"isAvailable": true,

}

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"RepositoryId": "2c9079b0-76b4-415f-bca8-de1450cedf89"

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f",

"name": "job office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-06-01T08:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "EntireOrganization",

"lastStatus": "Stopped",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25287149141f"

"organization": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/organizations/9b538005-3e68-4263-a84e-cc40630747be"

"backupRepository": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/backuprepositories/ce18de31-329d-4f0f-b85e-4424cc2e6821"

"jobsessions": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-42e6-bab7-25387149141f/jobsessions"

"excludedItems": {

"href": "https://support.east.local:4443/v3/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f/excludedItems"

}