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History of the backup and restore jobs

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Overview

Every time a backup or restore job is run, information about the job is recorded. The History subtab shows then summary of the job information.

History subtab

Information

Information on the History subtab is presented in the table format with the following default columns:

Column Value Description
Job ID   Unique identifier of the job
Status   Status of the job
  Status successfully completed Successfully Completed. The job finished successfully.
  Status completed with errors Completed With Errors. The job completed, but might have some problems.
  Status failed verification Failed Verification. A completed job that was re-imported or replicated and there was a problem detected with the job (for example, a file was found to be corrupt).
  Status fatal error Fatal Error. The job did not complete successfully and is not restorable.
  Status canceled Canceled. The backup was canceled, it is not complete, and cannot be restored.
  Status pending replication Pending Replication. Some of the job data has been replicated, but reassembling the entire job requires data from another job that has not yet finished replicating.
  Status pending delete Pending Delete. Data from this job is required to be able to reassemble another job. When the other job has finished replicating and is complete, this job will be deleted.
Errors   Number of errors in the job
Archived   Checkmark indicates that a job has been archived 1
Client   Name of the client the job belongs to
Type   Type of the job
  Bare-metal backup job icon Bare-metal backup
  DR image backup job icon DR image backup
  File and folder backup job icon File and folder backup
  Hyper-V VM backup job icon Hyper-V VM backup
  VMware VM backup job icon VMware VM backup
  Restore job icon Restore
Level   Backup job level
  Full backup level icon Full backup
  Synthetic full backup level icon Synthetic full backup
  Differential backup level icon Differential backup
  Incremental backup level icon Incremental backup
De-duped   Checkmark indicates that the job has been deduplicated, and that duplicate files have been removed
Started Date   Date and time the job started
Duration   Time the job took
Throughput   Average speed of the job. Job speed depends on multiple factors, including file sizes and network conditions.
File Count   Number of the backed up or restored files in the job
Read Bytes   Number of bytes read from the client drive
Saved Bytes   Number of bytes saved to the CFA
Compression   Compression factor
Restorable   Checkmark indicates that the job has restorable data. Jobs not imported may be restorable, but not yet available for browsing.

Actions

All actions on the History subtab are available

  • on the toolbar

    Actions toolbar

  • in the job context menu

    Context menu

Each entry on the History subtab has a checkbox on the left side of the screen. If you check the checkboxes for one or more entries, the actions you select will apply to all selected entries, if possible.

Message logs

To view the message log—that is, the detailed summary of logs generated by a backup job—click Message Logs.

Job message logs

View client properties

To view the properties of a client associated with a certain job, click Show Client Properties.

This covers the following information:

  • real-time status of the backed up files

  • basic configuration

  • advanced configuration

  • storage utilization

  • backup failures

Prevent automatic deletion of a job

By default, a backup job can be deleted automatically

  • under the retention policy, or

  • if the respective client is deleted/unregistered, and the CFA is configured to delete the orphaned jobs.

To prevent automatic deletion of a backup job in these cases, you can pin the job as follows:

  1. Click Pin Job on the toolbar or in the context menu of the job.

  2. In the Date Until Pinned combo box, set the date, by which the job will stay pinned.

  3. In the Comments box, enter a comment, and then click OK.

Pinned jobs are indicated by a checkmark in the Pinned column. You can sort and filter the jobs by this status.

To unpin a job, click Unpin Job on the toolbar or in the context menu of the job.

To view or edit the details of a pinned job, click Pin Info on the toolbar or in the context menu of the job.

Browse and restore data

To browse and restore files and folders from the selected backup, click Browse and Restore.

Job browse and restore

Restore all data from a backup

To restore all files from a backup job, click Restore.

Restore all files

By default, files will be restored to their original paths. If you want to restore the files to a different location, specify a new path in the Relocate restored files to box.

If you want to restore the files to a different client, select the desired client in the Restore to client drop-down list.

Delete a job

To delete a job from the overall job list, click Delete.

View job properties

To view the properties of a job, click Properties. This covers the following information:

  • general job information

  • deduplication statistics (if the job has been deduplicated)

  • information about any backup failures (files that could not be backed up)

Job properties

Re-import missing data

If you suspect that the selected backup missed the importing files, you can re-import them (import again and add to the backup).

For this, click Advanced(Re)Import on the toolbar, or (Re)Import in the context menu of the job.

Deduplicate data

To enable the CFA to automatically store only one copy of an unchanged file, if the same file has been previously backed up, click AdvancedDeduplicate on the toolbar, or Deduplicate in the context menu of the job.

To deduplicate backup jobs, you must enable deduplication on the client, to which the job pertains.

Filtering

You can refine the list of jobs using filters.

To show all filters available on the History subtab, click Filters on the toolbar.

Filters

  1. If the archive disk is formatted after the job was archived, the archive check will remain without the archive copy. In this event, a new archive of the job should be created.