Disabling and Enabling Veeam Backup Agent Jobs

You can disable and enable scheduled Veeam backup agent jobs without accessing the Veeam backup agent Control Panel on client computers. For example, to prevent a backup job from writing data to a cloud repository by a configured schedule, you can temporarily disable this job.

Required Privileges

To perform this task, a user must have one of the following roles assigned: Service Provider Global Administrator, Service Provider Administrator, Service Provider Operator.

Disabling Jobs

To prevent Veeam backup agent jobs start by the schedule, you can disable them:

1. Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console.

For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console.

2. In the menu on the left, click Backup Jobs.
3. Open the Computers tab and navigate to Managed by Console.
4. Select one or more Veeam backup agents in the list.
5. At the top of the list, click Disable.

Alternatively, you can right-click the necessary Veeam backup agent and choose Disable.

Veeam Service Provider Console will disable all scheduled backup jobs on selected Veeam backup agents.

Enabling Jobs

To enabled previously disabled Veeam backup agent jobs:

1. Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console.

For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console.

2. In the menu on the left, click Backup Jobs.
3. Open the Computers tab and navigate to Managed by Console.
4. Select one or more Veeam backup agents in the list.
5. At the top of the list, click Enable.

Alternatively, you can right-click the necessary Veeam backup agent and choose Enable.

Veeam Service Provider Console will enable all scheduled backup jobs on selected Veeam backup agents.