Specifying Health Check Schedule
You can schedule a backup health check to run on a specific day of a specific month or on specific days of the week.
Specifying Monthly Health Check Schedule
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Starting from Veeam Agent version 2.1.2, the --thisday option for the veeamconfig healthcheck set command is no longer available. If in a previous Veeam Agent version, the health check schedule was set to run on a specific day of the month using the --thisday option, after upgrade to version 2.1.2, the health check schedule will be automatically reset to the default weekly configuration to run every Saturday. |
To instruct Veeam Agent to perform backup health check on a specific weekday of a month, use the following command:
veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobid <job_id> --monthlyweekday <day> --weeknumber <week> [--months <months>] |
or
veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobname <job_name> --monthlyweekday <day> --weeknumber <week> [--months <months>] |
where:
- <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure health check schedule. You should look up the backup job ID before you configure 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 health check schedule.
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If the name of the job consists of several words and contains spaces, use quote marks around the name — for example, --jobName "Files Backup". |
- <day> — day of the week when the backup job must perform health check — for example, Tuesday or Tue.
- <week> — week of the month when the backup job must perform health check. Possible values: First, Second, Third, Fourth or Last.
- <months> — months when the backup job must perform health check, separated by a comma (',') — for example: Jan,Apr,Jul,Oct. If you do not specify this option, the health check will run every month.
For example:
user@wrk01:~$ veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobname SystemBackup --monthlyweekday Fri --weeknumber Last --months Mar,Jun,Sep,Dec |
Specifying Weekly Health Check Schedule
To instruct Veeam Agent to perform backup health check on specific week days, use the following command:
veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobid <job_id> --weekdays <days> |
or
veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobname <job_name> --weekdays <days> |
where:
- <job_id> — ID of the backup job for which you want to configure health check schedule. You should look up the backup job ID before you configure 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 health check schedule.
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If the name of the job consists of several words and contains spaces, use quote marks around the name — for example, --jobName "Files Backup". |
- <days> — comma-separated list of days when the backup job must run backup health check. For example: Mon,Fri. The backup job will run the health check on the specified days at the time specified in the backup job schedule settings.
For example:
user@wrk01:~$ veeamconfig healthcheck set --light --jobname "System Backup" --weekdays mon,fri |