How to forcibly stop a dedicated Veeam job stuck in „stopping“ status

It may happen that a Veeam Backup Job stucks in “stopping” status.  If you search for a resolution you will stumble upon Veeam KB 1727.

Unfortunately, the provided solution will terminate ALL jobs and restores.

But how do you terminate a dedicated Veeam job stuck in “stopping” status?

Before you start please note:
Some jobs may take some time to stop, please allow up to 60 minutes for a job to stop before terminating it.

How to terminate a dedicated job:

First, find out the ID of the job you want to terminate:

• right-click the job in your „Veeam Backup and Replication Console“ and select „Edit“
• change to „Summary“
• write down the ID mentioned in the command line to start the job on the backup server:

• open the Task Manager on your Veeam Backup & Replication Server
• change to „Processes“
• right-click in the header of the processes and select „Command Line“ to be displayed
• search for the command line with the ID worked out the step before
• right-click the said command line and select „End Task“ to terminate the process:

• Done!