I'd like to schedule an Active Full for a Backup Copy job. As near as I can tell, it can't be scheduled, which is disappointing, but I can deal with it. Having never used it before, I figured I'd give Veeam Intelligence a shot and see what it told me. My question was simple: "How do I schedule an Active Full for a Backup Copy?" It gave me an answer in two parts. In the first part, it told me how to manually start an Active Full ("ribbon --> Active Full" or "right-click --> Active Full") which it, for some reason, considered scheduling it. The second answer is where it went off the rails:
Additionally, you can configure periodic Active Full backups in the job settings:
1. Go to the Advanced section of the backup job settings.
2. Select the Create active full backups periodically checkbox and click Configure to define the scheduling settings.
it gets better. I responded, "That's not correct", and VAI doubled-down:
To schedule an Active Full backup for a Backup Copy job in Veeam Backup & Replication, edit the backup copy job, go to the Schedule step, open the Advanced settings, and configure the periodic creation of active full backups.
When I said, "There is no option to create an Active Full in the Advanced section of a backup copy job", it insisted it was correct, with blatantly incorrect step-by-step instructions:
To schedule an Active Full backup for a Backup Copy job in Veeam Backup & Replication, follow these steps:
- Open the Home view in Veeam Backup & Replication.
- Select the Backup Copy node under Jobs in the inventory pane.
- Edit the Backup Copy job you want to configure.
- Go to the Schedule step of the job settings.
- Open the Advanced settings.
- Enable the option to create periodic Active Full backups:
- Check the box for "Create active full backups periodically".
- Click Configure to define the scheduling settings (e.g., weekly, monthly).