Before You Begin

Prerequisites

Before you configure the backup job, check the following prerequisites:

• The target location where you plan to store backup files must have enough free space.
• [For Veeam Backup & Replication repository targets] You can store created backups in a backup repository only if the backup server runs Veeam Backup & Replication 12.0 or later.
• [For Veeam Backup & Replication repository targets] If you plan to use a Veeam Backup & Replication repository as a target for backups, you must pre-configure user access permissions on this backup repository. To learn more, see Setting Up User Permissions on Backup Repositories.

Considerations and Limitations

Before you configure the backup job, consider the following:

• When you configure the backup job with the Backup Job wizard, Veeam Agent creates the job with default values for the following advanced settings: compression level and data block size. You can specify custom values for these settings in the command line interface when you create a new backup job or edit an existing backup job. For more information, see Creating Backup Job in Command Line Interface and Editing Backup Job Settings.

• 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.
• [For nosnap Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam Agent for Linux on Power] When you back up the entire computer or create a volume-level backup, Veeam Agent backs up the boot partition in the snapshot-less mode. To ensure consistency of the boot partition data during backup, Veeam Agent uses the fsfreeze or umount commands.
• Veeam Agent stops running the backup job after 21 days (504 hours).
• Veeam Agent 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.
• Veeam Agent does not support backup of bind mount points. In the scope of the backup job, you must specify the path to the original mount point instead.

Navigating Backup Job Wizard

The Backup Job wizard window comprises the following areas:

• The navigation pane, located on the left of the window, displays the list of wizard steps and currently selected step of the wizard.

• The working area displays controls relating to a specific step of the wizard.
• The buttons area, located at the bottom of the window, displays buttons that you can use to switch between steps of the wizard (Previous and Next) and close the wizard (Cancel and Finish).

In the Backup Job wizard, the use of a mouse is not supported. To navigate the Backup Job wizard and associated dialog windows, you can use the following keys:

• [Tab] — to switch between displayed controls in the working area and buttons in the buttons area. The currently selected control or button is highlighted with a green color.
• [Up] and [Down] — to switch between items in a scrollable list.
• [Space] — to select the necessary item in a list. The selected item's mark may vary in different steps of the wizard.

• [Enter] — to proceed to the next step of the wizard or to open a directory.
• [Backspace] — to return to the previous step of a wizard.

• [Esc] — to cancel the backup job configuration and exit the wizard.