Creating Backup Jobs

In this article

You can create a backup job for an organization with the specified ID.

Request

POST https://<hostname>:4443/v5/Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs

Request Headers

The request header must contain an authorization token of the current session.

Request Parameters

The following parameter must be specified in the URL of the request:

Parameter	Type	Description
organizationId	string	Specifies the identification number of the Office 365 organization. For more information on how to get this parameter, see Getting Organizations.

Request Body

The following table lists available request properties:

Property	Type	Description
name	string	Specifies the name of the backup job.
description	string	Specifies the description of the backup job.
backupType	backupType	Specifies the type of the backup job: entireOrganization selectedItems Note: For the backup job of the selectedItems type, you must specify a collection of objects you want to back up. For more information about properties that you must specify for different types of backup and excluded items, see backupitemType and excludeditemType.
schedulePolicy	schedulePolicy	Specifies the backup job scheduling options.
proxyId	string	Specifies the ID of the backup proxy where the repository with backups is located.
repositoryId	string	Specifies the ID of the repository where the organization backups will be stored.
runNow	boolean	If set to true, the job will run right after it is created.

schedulePolicy

Specify the following properties for the backup job schedule:

Property	Type	Description
type	string	Specifies the job schedule type: Daily: runs the backup job on specific days. Periodically: runs the backup job repeatedly throughout a day with a specific time interval.
dailyType	string	Specifies the days when the backup job will run: Everyday Weekends Workdays Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
dailyTime	UTC	Specifies the time when the job will start.
periodicInterval	string	Specifies the time interval between the job runs: Minutes5 Minutes10 Minutes15 Minutes30 Hours1 Hours2 Hours4 Hours8
backupWindowEnabled	boolean	If set to true, indicates that a backup window feature is enabled for this job.
backupWindowSettings	backupWindowSettings	Specifies the job's backup window settings. A backup window is a time period within which the job must be completed.
retryEnabled	boolean	If set to true, indicates that Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 will attempt to restart a backup job if it fails for some reason.
retryNumber	integer	Specifies the number of attempts to run the backup job.
retryWaitInterval	integer	Specifies the time intervals between the job retry attempts (minutes).

For example:

Request Body:

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": true,

"backupWindowSettings": {

"backupWindow": [

true,

true

"minuteOffset": 0

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Wednesday",

"dailyTime": "08:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

backupWindowSettings

Specify the following property for the job's backup window:

Property	Type	Description
backupWindow	boolean	Specifies an hourly scheme for the backup window. The scheduling scheme consists of 168 boolean elements. These elements can be logically divided into 7 groups by 24. Each group represents a day of the week starting from Sunday. Each element represents a backup hour: true — the allowed backup hour false — the prohibited backup hour
minuteOffset	integer	Specifies the current minute offset from the UTC time.

Property

Type

Description

backupWindow

boolean

Specifies an hourly scheme for the backup window. The scheduling scheme consists of 168 boolean elements. These elements can be logically divided into 7 groups by 24. Each group represents a day of the week starting from Sunday. Each element represents a backup hour:

true — the allowed backup hour
false — the prohibited backup hour

minuteOffset

integer

Specifies the current minute offset from the UTC time.

For example:

Request Body:

"backupWindowSettings": {

"backupWindow": [

true,

false,

false

}

Response

The server returns the following response to the client.

Response Codes

A successfully completed operation returns a response code 201 Created.

Response Headers

The response to this request contains the following headers. The response may also include additional standard HTTPS headers.

Header	Description
Content-length	The length of the response body.
Content-type	The media type and syntax of the response body message: application/json; charset=utf-8

Response Body

In the response body, the server returns a resource representation of the /Organizations/{organizationId}/Jobs resource. The resource has the following URL: /Jobs/{jobId}.

For more information about properties that you get for different types of backup and excluded items, see backupitemType and excludeditemType.

Examples

Example 1

The example shows how to back up an entire organization with the ID 9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd.

Request:

POST https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/Organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd/Jobs

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"name": "job office365",

"description": "",

"backupType": "entireOrganization",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"repositoryId": "2c9079b0-76b4-415f-bca8-de1450cedf79"

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f",

"name": "job office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-06-01T08:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "entireOrganization",

"lastStatus": "Stopped",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25287149141f"

"organization": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd"

"backupRepository": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/backuprepositories/ce18de31-329d-4f0f-b85e-4424cc2e6821"

"jobsessions": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-42e6-bab7-25387149141f/jobsessions"

"excludedItems": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/e8e3e9d5-29ba-41e6-bab7-25387149141f/excludedItems"

}

Example 2

The example shows how to back up selected items of an organization with the ID 9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd.

Request:

POST https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/Organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd/Jobs

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"name": "job SelectedItems office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-05-29T22:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "selectedItems",

"selectedItems":

[

{

"type": "partialOrganization",

"mailbox": true,

"archiveMailbox": true,

"oneDrive": true,

"site": true

{

"type": "User",

"user": {

"id": "b583d2b8-c143-4b98-a769-fc95ebaa45f600000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName": "USER1",

"name": "USER1@organization.onmicrosoft.com",

"type": "User"

"mailbox": true,

"archiveMailbox": true,

"oneDrive": true,

"site": true

{

"type": "Group",

"group": {

"id": "ca4b3d46-640f-4353-b59b-5beff743ca4c00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName": "user 1550",

"name": "user1550@organization.onmicrosoft.com",

"managedBy": "USER1",

"site": "https://organization.sharepoint.com/sites/SomeSite",

"type": "Office365",

"locationType": "Cloud"

"members": true,

"memberMail": true,

"memberArchive": false,

"memberOneDrive": true,

"memberSite": false,

"mail": true,

"site": false

{

"type": "Site",

"site": {

"id": "94f50108-75b4-4a5e-89ae-5651ee1e3975fdc607c4-6ac6-47d9-a1f3-cbdbc9766174",

"url": "https://organization.sharepoint.com/sites/group2",

"name": "Group 2",

"isCloud": true,

"title": "Group 2",

"isAvailable": true

}

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"repositoryId": "2c9079b0-76b4-415f-bca8-de1450cedf89"

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "2cc74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82c",

"name": "job SelectedItems office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-05-29T22:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "selectedItems",

"lastStatus": "Stopped",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2cc74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82c"

"organization": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd"

"backupRepository": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/backuprepositories/ce18de31-329d-4f0f-b85e-4424cc2e6821"

"jobsessions": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2cc74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82c/jobsessions"

"selectedItems": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2cc74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82c/selectedItems"

}

Example 3

The example shows how to exclude items when creating a backup job for an organization with the ID 9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd.

For more information about properties that you must specify for different types of the excluded items, see excludeditemType.

Request:

POST https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/Organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd/Jobs

Request Header:

Authorization: Bearer <Access-Token>

Request Body:

{

"name": "job exludedItems office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-05-29T22:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "entireOrganization",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"repositoryId": "2c9079b0-76b4-415f-bca8-de1450cedf79",

"excludedItems":[

{

"type":"User",

"user":{

"id":"aa7dd142-bad0-41ff-8d4a-bae7ba57b50c00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName":"Administrator",

"name":"administrator@abc.onmicrosoft.com",

"type":"User"

"mailbox":true,

"oneDrive":false,

"archiveMailbox":false,

"site":false

{

"type":"User",

"user":{

"id":"defe15d6-5df0-4fa0-aeb1-9be225d7c82b00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",

"displayName":"Administrator 2",

"name":"administrator2@abc.onmicrosoft.com",

"type":"User"

"mailbox":true,

"oneDrive":true,

"archiveMailbox":true,

"site":true

}

]

}

Response:

201 Created

Response Body:

{

"id": "2ac74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82a",

"name": "job excludedItems office365",

"description": "",

"nextRun": "2017-05-29T22:00:00Z",

"isEnabled": true,

"backupType": "entireOrganization",

"lastStatus": "Stopped",

"schedulePolicy": {

"backupWindowEnabled": false,

"type": "Daily",

"dailyType": "Everyday",

"dailyTime": "01:00:00",

"retryEnabled": true,

"retryNumber": 3,

"retryWaitInterval": 10

"_links": {

"self": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2ac74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82a"

"organization": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/organizations/9b538005-3e78-4253-a84e-cc40630747cd"

"backupRepository": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/backuprepositories/ce18de31-329d-4f0f-b85e-4424cc2e6821"

"jobsessions": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2ac74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82a/jobsessions"

"excludedItems": {

"href": "https://abc.tech.local:4443/v5/jobs/2ac74c52-739f-4ea2-827a-c355e7ecc82a/excludedItems"

}