Verification Jobs

What is a verification job?

On Proxmox Backup Server, a verification job checks all the backups you have on your datastore to ensure there hasn't been any corruption or bit rot. Usually it is best to schedule verification jobs whenever you are not backing up data to your datastore or around any downtime.

Setting Up a Verification Job

To setup a verification job, you can either login to your backup server or the TAC.GLOBAL dashboard. We advise setting up your verification job through the dashboard since you can enable email notifications for the status and runtime of your verification job.

Login to the dashboard here.

On the home page, navigate to the verification job table.

In the bottom right corner, click to add a new job.

You can set how many days you'd like the verification status to last, but once the verification outdated number of days has passed your verification job will check the backup to ensure no corruption/bit rot.