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Scheduled run once backup

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Cannot seem to find an option to run a backup once only on a specified date and time?
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Mark, I believe the only way to do this is to trigger the job via Windows Task Manager.
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What is the use case of running scheduled backup only once? Can you please clarify?
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Vitaliy S. wrote:What is the use case of running scheduled backup only once? Can you please clarify?
We are not ready to place our Veeam into a live environment, so we are testing scheduled backups which means these will not need to be re-run during this phase.

There are also cases where there is no need to perform periodic backups, such as VM's where data does not change but running during a day is not appropriate.
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Ok, in this case you can potentially use ad-hoc backup functionality or follow foggy's advice.
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foggy wrote:Mark, I believe the only way to do this is to trigger the job via Windows Task Manager.
Thanks foggy, is an overview of the command line switch anywhere?
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You can either use a command line from the Summary page of the job's wizard or the Start-VBRJob PowerShell cmdlet.
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If you need it for testing purpose, you can schedule the job to run daily or monthly, wait until first run is complete and turn off the schedule.
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