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Backup Agent - Managing your backups

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Need to restore your data? File-level restore is the primary and most common method; full server restore (Bare Metal Recovery) is not supported. See our Triggering restores guide.

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Find more information on the Backup Agent product on this page.

 

Requirements

OVHcloud Control Panel Access

  • Direct link: Backup Agent
  • Navigation path: Bare Metal Cloud > Storage and backups > Backup Agent

 

Instructions

Backup

You have two options for making backups: Automatic Backup and Manual Backup.

 

Automatic backup

Automatic backup is included in the backup policy that we apply to your Backup Agent.

This will back up all your files and send them to your remote storage location.

Warning

NOTE: Automatic backups will begin between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., based on the time zone of your vault.

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You cannot change or disable this automatic backup. Currently, you cannot modify the policy that backs up your files; we are working to improve this configuration.

You can view the success of this backup via the "Backup Jobs" dashboard of the Veeam Service Provider Console.

Jobs - Backup restore

 

Manual backup

If necessary, you can trigger a manual backup.

It will also back up all your files, which will always be sent to your remote storage point.

To create a manual backup, click on the tab corresponding to your Operating System:

Windows
Linux

Open the "Veeam Agent" application on your Bare Metal server:

Bkpagent search

Click the Backup Now button to launch a backup:

Backup restore

 

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