Stop in‑progress backups

Whether you use agent‑less or agent‑based enrollment, onQ can perform three PN backups simultaneously. However, with agent‑less enrollment, your agent‑less PNs must reside on different ESX/ESXi hosts.

Even when you schedule backups during non‑working hours, backups can occur during unscheduled times (working hours) due to queued snapshots. Queued snapshots can occur if onQ is overly busy backing up other PNs or if the PNs have short backup intervals.

If an unwanted backup is in progress during unscheduled times, you might want to stop that backup from continuing if it is affecting performance.

To stop a backup:

1.	Log on to the HA Appliance’s onQ Portal.

2.	Go to DASHBOARD tab > PROTECTED NODES page.

3.	Unlock the page.

4.	Locate the PN with a backup in progress as indicated by the Backup Status column (see Monitor backups).

5.	Click on the Backup Status button. The Backup Status in progress dialog appears.

6.	Click STOP BACKUP.

The backup will automatically run at the next scheduled interval as displayed in the Next Scheduled Backup column.

7.	(Optional) Consider increasing your backup interval to prevent queuing of backups.

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