Disabling and Deleting Jobs

You can temporarily disable scheduled jobs. The disabled job is paused for some period of time and is not run by the specified schedule. You can enable a disabled job at any time. You can also permanently delete a job from Veeam Backup & Replication and the configuration database.

Disabling Job

To disable a job:

  1. Open Jobs node in the management pane.
  2. In the working area, select the job and click Disable on the ribbon or right-click the job and select Disable.

To enable a disabled job, select it in the list and click Enable on the ribbon.

Note

If the health check is enabled in the job settings, it will continue to run according to its own schedule, regardless of the job status.

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Deleting Job

To delete a job:

  1. Open Jobs node in the management pane.
  2. In the working area, select the job and click Delete on the ribbon or right-click the job and select Delete.

After the job is deleted, the backups created by this job are displayed under the Backups > Disk (Orphaned) node. If the backup files created by this job were also stored in capacity tier or archive tier, they will also be displayed under the Backups > Object Storage (Orphaned) or Backups > Archive (Orphaned) nodes.

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