Scheduled run once backup

[marky]

Cannot seem to find an option to run a backup once only on a specified date and time?

[foggy]

Mark, I believe the only way to do this is to trigger the job via Windows Task Manager.

[Vitaliy S.]

What is the use case of running scheduled backup only once? Can you please clarify?

[marky]

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.

[Vitaliy S.]

Ok, in this case you can potentially use ad-hoc backup functionality or follow foggy's advice.

[marky]

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?

[foggy]

You can either use a command line from the Summary page of the job's wizard or the Start-VBRJob PowerShell cmdlet.

[nefes]

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.