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Veeam v13 Appliance – Automatically shut down after backup job completes?

  • July 20, 2026
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Hi everyone,

We're currently using the new Veeam Backup & Replication v13 Appliance and have a question regarding post-backup automation.

In our previous Windows-based Veeam installation, we had a scheduled task that would automatically shut down the backup server after the backup job had completed successfully. This worked well for our 3-2-1 backup strategy, as the backup server only needed to be online during the backup window.

After migrating to the v13 Appliance, we can't seem to find a similar option or supported method to automatically power off the appliance once all backup jobs have finished.

Has anyone implemented this on the v13 Appliance? Is there a built-in feature, or is there a recommended approach for scheduling an automatic shutdown after all backup jobs have completed?

Any suggestions or best practices would be appreciated.

Best answer by ddomask

Hi all, 

Support can only help with documented and existing features, architectural design questions like this are outside the scope of Veeam Support.

​@VEEAM_Legend 

You would need to control this outside of the VSA -- it is unsupported to modify the Appliance (Software or Infrastructure) in any way, including adding cronjobs through shell / ssh.

Depending on how you have it deployed (VM vs physical server), configure a scheduled task to shut down the VM / send shutdown command to the physical server over some control plane. 

We do have some plans to expose Host Management Console operations programmatically, but nothing for the immediate future.

AnonTech

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    coolsport00
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    • coolsport00
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    • July 20, 2026

    ​@VEEAM_Legend - your best bet is to contact Support. If your VBR is a VM, you could schedule a task in VMW to power down the VM; if it’s a physical box, you could send a power down cmd to it via iLO/iDRAC I’m sure...some kind of hardware cmd should do the trick. Other than that I’m not sure how you can achieve what you want.

    Shane Williford - Veeam VMCA/VMCE | Veeam Legend | VUG Leader | VCP-DCV | Twitter: @coolsport00
      Chris.Childerhose
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      Never tried this with the VSA but agree with Shane about contacting support to get advice on how best to accomplish this.  You also asked this previously for Windows as well so I assume the answer will be similar or slightly different for VSA - https://community.veeam.com/discussion-boards-66/query-setting-up-automatic-power-off-after-veeam-backup-completion-6069

       

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        • ddomask
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        • July 21, 2026

        Hi all, 

        Support can only help with documented and existing features, architectural design questions like this are outside the scope of Veeam Support.

        ​@VEEAM_Legend 

        You would need to control this outside of the VSA -- it is unsupported to modify the Appliance (Software or Infrastructure) in any way, including adding cronjobs through shell / ssh.

        Depending on how you have it deployed (VM vs physical server), configure a scheduled task to shut down the VM / send shutdown command to the physical server over some control plane. 

        We do have some plans to expose Host Management Console operations programmatically, but nothing for the immediate future.

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