Deleting Backup Job

You can delete a backup job configured in Veeam Agent for Linux. When you delete a backup job, backup files created by this job remain intact in the backup repository.

You can delete backup jobs in one of the following ways:

Deleting Backup Job in Control Panel

To delete a backup job using the Veeam Agent control panel, do the following:

  1. Launch the Veeam Agent control panel with the veeam or veeamconfig ui command.
  2. Press the [C] key to open the Select job to configure window or the [S] key to open the Select job to start window.
  3. Select the necessary backup job in the list and press [Delete].
  4. In the displayed confirmation window, make sure that the Yes button is selected and press [Enter].

Deleting Backup Job

Deleting Backup Job in Command Line Interface

To delete a backup job in the Veeam Agent command line interface, use the following command:

veeamconfig job delete --name <job_name>

or

veeamconfig job delete --id <job_id>

where:

  • <job_name> — name of the backup job that you want to delete.
  • <job_id> — ID of the backup job that you want to delete.

For example:

$ veeamconfig job delete --name SystemBackup

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