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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.

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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.


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