Activities

For better and easier management among all the events on Active Backup for Business, Active Backup for Business provides administrators detailed event information in Activities tab, including activity logs, activity details, and adjustable daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports.

To access logs in Activities tab, do any of the following:

Please note that ongoing events will only be displayed on Ongoing Activities section in Overview tab as well as the task monitor.

Log

All the events happened on this backup server are listed in this tab.

Below are the event details you can see in the log list:

To go to the task history of the log:

Click at the right side of the log, and the task history including the backup duration and transferred size will be displayed for your reference.

To set retention rules for logs:

  1. Click on Settings.
  2. You can permanently preserve these logs on the backup server when not checking the options, or you can do any of the following to set the retention rules for logs:
  3. Click OK to apply your retention rules.

To export all logs:

  1. Click Export to export logs in a .csv file.

To delete all logs:

  1. Click on Settings.
  2. Click Delete all logs, and confirm the action if no log needs to be preserved on the server.

To send logs to a log server:

You can send the logs of Active Backup for Business to a syslog server.

  1. Click Settings.
  2. Under the Log Forwarding tab, tick Send logs to a syslog server.
  3. Enter the syslog server's information:
  4. Click Send Test Log to send a test log to the syslog server.

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Task History

You can view further information of each performed task and export the task's logs in Task History tab.

To view detail information of a performed task, do any of the following:

To export task history logs:

  1. Click Export to export logs in a .csv file.

To check the speed and utilization rates:

Summary of the backup performances including the backup speed and the utilization rates are recorded on the log list as well.

  1. Find the log entry which recorded the backup speed and the utilization rates. It is recorded in the last log before the backup completion announcement.
  2. Hover your mouse to the log to view complete log entry.

Report

A detailed and adjustable report is supported on Active Backup for Business for IT admin’s routine monitor on the backup performance. This report contains most of the information in Overview tab. IT admins can generate daily, weekly, monthly, and annual reports in Report by request or by a configurable schedule.

All the generated reports are listed in Report tab. You can always click Open report at the end of each generated report entry to view the report.

Note:It is not supported to generate a report which ends earlier than today.

To generate a report instantly:

  1. Click Generate Report.
  2. Select your report type to be Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Annual.
  3. If you want to send the report via email, fill in the email addresses and separate them with commas.

To generate a report by a schedule:

  1. Click Schedule.
  2. Check the checkbox next to Generate reports according to customized schedule.
  3. Configure your scheduled report settings.
  4. If you want to send the report via email, fill in the email addresses and separate them with commas.

Report Overview

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