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title: "Creating Veeam Agent Backup Job"
description: "To back up physical machines, you must configure a Veeam Agent backup job in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. In Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create Veeam Agent backup jobs of the following types: Backup job The backup job runs on..."
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# Creating Veeam Agent Backup Job

To back up physical machines, you must configure a Veeam Agent backup job in the Veeam Backup & Replication console. In Veeam Backup & Replication, you can create Veeam Agent backup jobs of the following types:

- **Backup job**

  The backup job runs on the backup server, like VM backup jobs. The backup job is intended for computers that are connected to the backup server. This connection must not be interrupted.

- **Backup policy**

  The backup policy describes configuration of individual Veeam Agent backup jobs that run on protected computers. The backup policy is intended for computers that are connected to the backup server. The connection may be interrupted for short periods of time. For example, when you move your laptop from one location to another. Veeam Backup & Replication uses the backup policy as a template and applies settings from the backup policy to Veeam Agents that run on computers specified in the backup policy.

  In this guide, we do not detail backup policy. For more information, see [Creating Veeam Agent Backup Policy](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/agent_policy.html?ver=13).

Veeam Backup & Replication lets you create backup jobs for Microsoft Windows and Linux computers. In this section, you will learn how to create a Veeam Agent backup job for Microsoft Windows computes. For details on how to create back jobs for Linux computes, see the [Creating Agent Backup Job for Linux Computers](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/agent_job_create_linux.html?ver=13) section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

## Before You Begin

Consider the following:

- You must have at least one protection group. For details, see [Creating Protection Group](protection_group_create.md).
- You can create Veeam Agent backups on a Veeam backup repository only. Other types of target locations are not supported.
- Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows does not back up data to which symbolic links are targeted. It only backs up the path information that the symbolic links contain. After restore, identical symbolic links are created in the restore destination.

## Creating Veeam Agent Backup Job

1. Open the **Home** view.
2. In the inventory pane of the **Home** view, right-click the **Jobs** node and select **Backup** > **Windows computer** to open the **New Agent Backup Job** wizard.

   [![](images/agent_backup_job_launch.png)](images/agent_backup_job_launch.png){.toggle scale=75}

3. At the **Job Mode** step of the wizard, specify protection settings for the backup job:

   1. In the **Type** list, select **Server** to add to the backup job standalone servers that have permanent connection to the backup server.
   2. In the **Mode** list, select **Managed by backup server**.

      When you create a Veeam Agent backup job managed by the backup server, Veeam Backup & Replication saves the job settings in its database. Veeam Backup & Replication performs all management tasks for the Veeam Agent backup job: starts a job upon the defined schedule, allocates backup infrastructure resources and so on.

   ![](images/agent_job_protection_mode.png)

4. At the **Name** step of the wizard, specify a name and description for the backup job.
5. At the **Computers** step of the wizard, click **Add** and select one or several protection groups or computers in the list. Click **OK**.

   ![](images/agent_job_computers.png)

6. At the **Backup Mode** step of the wizard, select **Entire computer**.

   When you restore data from such a backup, you are able to recover the entire computer image as well as data on specific computer volumes: files, folders and application data.

   ![](images/agent_job_mode.png)

7. At the **Storage** step of the wizard, select the backup repository where you want to store your backups. For other settings, leave the default values.
8. At the **Guest Processing** step of the wizard, leave the default settings.
9. At the **Schedule** step of the wizard, define scheduling settings for the job.
10. At the **Summary** step of the wizard, select the **Run the job when I click Finish** check box and click the **Finish** button.
11. In the inventory pane of the **Home** view, expand the **Last 24 Hours** node to see the created job.

## Reference

For more information on creating Veeam Agent backup jobs for Microsoft Windows computers, see the [Creating Agent Backup Job for Windows Computers](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/userguide/agent_job_create_win.html?ver=13) section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.