Backups by State

under Job State->Backups backup operations can be viewed historically.

By selecting a task the properties of the backup are shown by doubleclick or with the button Properties. An active task can be aborted by clicking the Cancel button.

By clicking on the column headers, for example column "Status" or column "Start Time", the diplay of the choosen column is sorted alphabetical or chronological. By clicking with the right mouse button on a column header, a popup-windows opens on wich all columns can be turned on or off. These settings are saved by default in the local Java-profile of the GUI client. Already implemented tasks are shown grouped in the tree table view (see Taskgroups). With the Table View switch a flat tableview can be activated. After switching to the flat tableview the switch Table View changes to Treetable View with that the display can be switched back.

State Filter

The button Filter can be found in the upper right corner of the status window.

Date Range and Clients

Date (Sesam Date)

The definition of a daterange from / to limits the visibility of the backup history field

Filter

Client

Filters the backups specified by the client during the period

all servers

The switch is only relevant in a master environment and then used to display the backups of all servers that are managed with the master GUI.

State

In progress

in Queue

This task is in the queue, ie appointment started by SEPuler, however must wait until the tapedrive is available for the choosen mediapool.

Active

This task is in process

Not restorable

Canceled

The task was aborted during data transmission

Error

Fatal error during completion of that task

Restorable

Successful

Backup successful

Info

System-related some files could not be backed up, ie opened files under Windows

Type

The display of...

• Newday can be turned on/off
• Backups can be turned on/off
• Media - media inits can be turned on/off
• Migrations can be turned on/off. Therefore backups in line with a migration are displayed also here and not only in the field JobStatus/Migration. This can be useful if periodic dependencys should be compared.
• Startup shows Sesam newdays
• Commands shows command events
• Groups are placeholders for grouping of single tasks and can be turned on/off

Task Name

In the input box (#1) a search string can be inserted, with that the tasknames are filtered during insertion and are displayed in the list(#2) below. After that one or more tasks can be selected with the <Ctrl>-key and mouse. With the delete-button (#3) the search string will be deleted and with the reset button (#4) the filter by tasknames is reseted and all tasks are displyed again.

Properties of a finished backup

Info 1

Saveset 

Name of the Backup Task

Type 

Backup Type (F=Full, C=Copy, I=Incremental, D=Differential)

Medien Count 

Media used for the backup

Size 

of the backup in Bytes

Used Labels 

List of used Media

Status 

Detailed status reports

Info 2

Info 3

Shows status of Encryption and Compression.

Protocol

The Backup Log or Protocol displays and stores the reports regarding the process of the backup.

PRE-Log

Report regarding the Pre- Interface activated before the backup task started.

POST-Log

Report for the Post- Interface, after the backup was finished.

Statistics

Presentation of the above table for selected Backup Tasks/Jobs displayed in a pie chart, the graph can be rotated with mouse clicks. You can switch between table output and graphical output with the button in the window.