Backup Job Types

When creating a backup policy, you configure the default backup schedule according to which Veeam Backup for Salesforce will back up the Salesforce organization. You can also enable custom schedules in the backup policy settings to additionally protect specific groups of objects. The configured schedules are further used by the product to create backup jobs of 5 different types:

• Data job — this job type is used to back up object data of the protected Salesforce organization. Data jobs run according to each configured backup schedule (both custom and default). To learn how to configure backup schedules, see Creating Backup Policies.
• Metadata job — this job type is used to back up metadata of the protected Salesforce organization. Metadata jobs run according to default backup schedules only.
• File job — this job type is used to back up files and attachments of the protected Salesforce organization. File jobs run according to default backup schedules and only if you enable backup of files and attachments in backup policy settings. To learn how to enable this functionality, see Creating Backup Policies.
• Validate job — this job type is used to compare backed-up data in the product database with data currently stored in Salesforce, that is, to detect hard-deleted items and mark them as deleted in the product database. Validate jobs automatically run weekly at the same time for each enabled backup policy. To learn how to enable backup policies, see Disabling and Enabling Backup Policies.
• Encryption job — this job type is used to encrypt records and files of the protected Salesforce organization. Encryption jobs run according to the configured encryption settings — but only for those backup policies that have already been used to protect data and previously had the encryption functionality disabled.

If you disable encryption for a backup policy, the next run of the encryption job will decrypt data that has been previously encrypted. To learn how to enable and disable encryption, see Creating Backup Policies.

• Reload job — this job type is used to reload missing record fields and files to the backup database. Reload jobs are launched manually with no regard to backup schedules. To learn how to run a reload job, see Reloading Fields and Files.

Stopping and Restarting Backup Jobs

After editing a backup policy, users assigned the Administrators or Backup Operator role can stop and restart a specific backup job without stopping or running the whole policy. To restart a job, do the following:

1. Navigate to the Backup tab.
2. Click the link in the Status column.
3. Choose a backup job that you want to restart. Note that you can restart the latest version of the job only.