Creating SureBackup

A SureBackup job is a task for recovery verification. The SureBackup job aggregates all settings and policies of the recovery verification task, such as application group and virtual lab to be used, Veeam Agent backups that must be verified in the virtual lab and so on. You can run the SureBackup job manually or schedule it to run automatically.

Getting Started

Before you configure a SureBackup job that will test your backup, you must complete the following steps:

1. Consider limitations listed in Recovery Verification for Veeam Agent Backups.
2. Prepare a backup that you will test using the SureBackup job:

1. Add a computer to the inventory and deploy Veeam Agent on this computer using the Veeam Backup & Replication console. To learn more, see Creating Protection Groups.
2. Create a backup job with the Entire machine or Volume level backup mode selected in the job settings. To learn more, Creating Veeam Agent Backup Jobs.
3. Run the backup job to create a backup.

3. Configure the backup infrastructure to create the SureBackup job:

1. Add a virtual lab. The virtual lab is an isolated virtual environment in which Veeam Backup & Replication will test your backups. VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V servers are supported. To learn more, see the Creating Virtual Lab section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.
2. Add an application group. The application group provides a fully functional work for a host or a group of hosts that is created by Veeam Agent to test your backup. To learn more, see the Creating Application Groups section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

When you configure the application group, you must add the backup you want to test to this group.

After all preparations are done, you can create the SureBackup job.

Creating SureBackup Job

To create a new SureBackup job, use the New SureBackup Job wizard.

1. On the Home tab, click the SureBackup to launch the SureBackup Job wizard.
2. At the Name step of the wizard, specify a name and description for the SureBackup job.

3. At the Virtual Lab step of the wizard, select the virtual lab that Veeam Backup & Replication will use to recover your computer as a VM.

4. At the Application Group step of the wizard, select the application group with backups you want to test.

5. At the Linked Jobs step of the wizard, click Next.

6. At the Settings step of the wizard, click Next. In this case Veeam Backup & Replication will perform a heartbeat test and a ping test. Using these tests, Veeam Backup & Replication will check that the VM is booted successfully: the guest OS is running and the VM responds to ping requests.

If you want to perform more predefined or custom tests, see details in the Specify Additional Job Settings section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

7. At the Schedule step of the wizard, select the Run the job automatically check box and specify time and days the job must start. By default, the SureBackup job starts daily at 10:00 PM.

8. At the Summary step of the wizard, select the Run the job when I click Finish check box if you want to start the SureBackup job right after you complete working with the wizard.

9. Click Finish.