agent policy - feature request

[mcz]

Hi everybody,

for our agent protection we choose the policy based approach, because many devices are not always online/reachable and therefore we can't use the server concept. By using the policy approach you will loose some really nice features which have all been described in the forums except the ability to start backups from the b&r console and this is something I would like to have.

Of course, you could start psexec to connect to the remote machine and then start

veeam.endpoint.manager /backup

to start a backup session but this isn't as nice as using the well-known-approach within the console: right-click onto the item and then choose between "Active Full" and "Start". I think that communication protocols between server and agents have already been implemented so this extention shouldn't be that much costly to develop

Hope that the veeam product guys like my idea

[Dima P.]

Hello Michael,

Thank you for your request. I assume when B&R server does not have connection to the client it’s ok to fail the backup task?

[mcz]

Hi Dmitry,

yes I think it's ok that the job fails when there is no direct connection to the client. Alternatively, you could put the "backup request" in a queue and when client comes online again, it'll receive the command

[Dima P.]

Michael,

Noted. Thanks again!

[wayne7215]

We also would like to have this possibility.

Is there a list from Veeam with all the Feature Requests you have already on the road map and working on it so we will see it in the next build?

[Dima P.]

wayne7215,

We do not have a roadmap to share, but this request is in the internal list of potential improvements. Thanks.