Manage Backup Task
This section demonstrates how to monitor backup status, examine detailed information about the backed up versions of each task, and delete / edit backup tasks.
Contents
- Examine detailed information
- Examine backed up versions
- Edit backup task settings
- Delete backup tasks
Examine detailed information
All existing tasks are displayed in Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Task. Select the one you want to view more info about and click Details, which will include the following:
- Status
- Status: complete, failed, or partially complete, suggesting the current status of the backup task.
- Source: all backed up virtual machines in the task.
- Destination: backup destination of the stored data.
- Execute time: last backup time of the task.
- Transferred size: volume of data transferred from the source side. The displayed number may be different from the actual used storage space due to deduplication and compression.
- Duration: elapsed time of the backup task.
- Log
- Log type: the category that the log belongs to, information / warning / error.
- Log description: the backup process of each task or encountered issues.
- Log time: the time of each log.
- Settings: You can click here to set up a log rotation policy.
Examine backed up versions
All existing tasks are displayed in Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Task. Select the one you want to view more info about and click Version, which will include the following:
- Status: complete, failed, or partially complete.
- Date Created: the time when a backed up version is created.
- You can also click the export icon to browse your backed up data and the live video of the backup if the backup verification is enabled
Edit backup task settings
All existing tasks are displayed in Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Task. You can choose to edit a single task or multiple ones at the same time. Please note that when selecting multiple tasks at the same time, all the tasks are required to be the same type of hypervisor.
Single select the task you want to edit, and click Edit. You can then change the virtual machines you want to protect, configure task settings, make a backup schedule, set up a retention policy, and grant privileges.
Delete backup tasks
All existing tasks are displayed in Active Backup for Business > Virtual Machine > Task. You can choose to delete a single task or multiple ones at the same time.
- Single select the task you want to edit, and click Delete. The task will be deleted from the panel, and all backed up data in the task will be deleted as well.
- Shift / Ctrl + left click to multi-delete the backup tasks you want to delete, and click Delete. The task will be deleted from the panel, and all the backed up data will be deleted as well.