Continuously run jobs can help you implement near-continuous data protection (near-CDP) for the most critical applications installed on VMs. A new session of a continuously running job starts as soon as the previous job session completes.

You can schedule the job to run continuously - that is, in a non-stop manner. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will start a new job session at 8:00 AM. The first job session starts at 12:00 AM, takes 5 hours and completes at 5:00 AM. For example, you set up a job to run with a 4-hour interval. If a session of a periodically run job does not fit into the specified time interval and overlaps the next planned job session, Veeam Backup & Replication starts the next backup job session at the nearest scheduled interval. In this case, the job will start at 12:15 AM, 4:15 AM, 8:15 AM, 12:15 PM, 4:15 PM and so on. For example, you can configure the job to start with a 4-hour interval and specify offset equal to 15 minutes. The offset is an exact time within an hour when the job must start. If necessary, you can specify an offset for periodically run jobs. For example, if you configure a job to run with a 4-hour interval, the job will start at 12:00 AM, 4:00 AM, 8:00 AM, 12:00 PM, 4:00 PM and so on. Veeam Backup & Replication always starts counting defined intervals from 12:00 AM, and the first job session will start at 12:00 AM. For example, you can configure a job to start every 30 minutes or every 2 hours.įor periodically run jobs, reference time is midnight (12:00 AM). The time interval between job sessions can be defined in minutes or hours. You can schedule jobs to start periodically throughout a day at a specific time interval.

For example, you can configure the job to start daily at 10:00 PM or every first Sunday of the month at 12:00 AM. This type of schedule requires that you define the exact time when the job must be started. You can schedule jobs to start at specific time daily, on specific week days or monthly on selected days.

You can schedule jobs to run continuously.

You can schedule jobs to run periodically at specific time intervals.

You can schedule jobs to run at specific time every day or on selected days.

Veeam Backup & Replication lets you configure the following scheduling settings for jobs: The Veeam Backup Service running on the backup server continuously checks configuration settings of all jobs configured on the backup server, and starts them according to their schedule.

To run a job periodically without user intervention, you can schedule the job to start automatically.

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