Specifying Active Full Backup Schedule
You can configure the backup job to create active full backups on a weekly or monthly schedule.
After you define the active full backup schedule, Veeam Agent automatically enables this schedule for the specified backup job.
To instruct Veeam Agent to create an active full backup on specific week days, use the following command:
veeamconfig schedule set --jobid <job_id> --weekdays <days> |
or
veeamconfig schedule set --jobname <job_name> --weekdays <days> |
where:
- <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule. You should look up the job ID in advance, before configuring the schedule — for example, with the veeamconfig job list command. To learn more, see Viewing List of Backup Jobs.
- <job_name> — name of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule.
- <days> — days when the backup job must create an active full backup separated by a comma (',') — for example: Monday,Friday or Mon,Fri.
For example:
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig schedule activefull set --jobname DailyBackup --weekdays Monday,Friday |
You can configure the backup job to create active full backups on specific months or every month.
- To create an active full backup monthly on a specific day of a specific week, use the following command:
veeamconfig schedule activefull set --jobid <job_id> --monthlyweekday <day> --weeknumber <week> [--months <months>] |
or
veeamconfig schedule set --jobname <job_name> --monthlyweekday <day> --weeknumber <week> [--months <months>] |
where:
- <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule. You should look up the job ID in advance, before configuring the schedule — for example, with the veeamconfig job list command. To learn more, see Viewing List of Backup Jobs.
- <job_name> — name of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule.
- <day> — days when the backup job must create an active full backup separated by a comma (','). For example: Monday,Friday. The backup job will create an active full backup on the specified days at the time specified in the backup job schedule settings.
- <week> — week of the month when the backup job must create an active full backup. Possible values: First, Second, Third, Fourth or Last.
- <months> — months when the backup job must create an active full backup separated by a comma (',') — for example: Jan,Apr,Jul,Oct. If you do not specify this option, the backup job will create an active full backup every month.
For example:
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig schedule activefull set --jobname DailyBackup --monthlyweekday Mon --weeknumber Second --months Jan,Jul |
- To configure the backup job to create an active full backup monthly on a specific day of the month, use the following command:
veeamconfig schedule set --jobid <job_id> --thisday <day> [--months <months>] |
or
veeamconfig schedule set --jobname <job_name> --thisday <day> [--months <months>] |
where:
- <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule. You should look up the job ID in advance, before configuring the schedule — for example, with the veeamconfig job list command. To learn more, see Viewing List of Backup Jobs.
- <job_name> — name of the backup job for which you want to configure the active full backup schedule.
- <day> — day of the month when Veeam Agent must create an active full backup. Possible values range from 1 to 31 or Last.
- <months> — months when the backup job must create an active full backup separated by a comma (',') — for example: Jan,Apr,Jul,Oct. If you do not specify this option, the backup job will create an active full backup every month.
For example:
user@srv01:~$ veeamconfig schedule set --jobname DailyBackup --thisday 21 --months Jan,Jul |