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Creating backup jobs

You can create and schedule backup jobs for an entire datacenter, a datastore, or a virtual machine. You can also view all backup jobs on the Backup Jobs page in the vSphere Web Client and create backup jobs from this page using the backup job wizard to select a virtual entity.

When you create the backup job, you can perform tasks such as setting a schedule that specifies when the backups will occur, setting a retention policy, and creating an automated policy for email alerts.

Virtual Storage Console for VMware vSphere provides two options for handling backup jobs. It automatically checks your environment to determine which option to use and which options to provide you with when you are working with backups.