Backup and Vaulting Status

A backup or vaulting operation in this table simply represents a single individual completed or on-going backup or vaulting operation.

The backup status table and vaulting status table are available in the lower center stage portion of the status page. Depending upon the system selected (vault, system, or client) the backup or vaulting status table depicts the last 7 to 30 days of information concerning backup or vaulting operations.

Each row of a backup and vaulting status table contains the following information:

Backups and vaulting status information may be either flat or grouped in folders (hierarchical view). If you click on the folder icon on the right-hand-side of the screen just above the lower tabbed status pane, you turn on and off folder view for backups and vaulting for the 7-day and monthly statuses, with the monthly tabs being added when navigating to a client or application. If shown hierarchically, folders for each system (if a vault or manager system is selected in the Navigational Pane) or the client (if a system, client, or application is selected in the Navigational Pane) are shown. The second-level folder organizes the backups or vaulting operations in a group, e.g., differential backups are grouped with the master backup on which they are based, Microsoft Exchange Differential backups are grouped with their Exchange Full backup for each protected database, and SQL Server Differential and Transaction log backups are grouped with their corresponding Full backups. The group folder name is a combination of the client, and specific information about the base group backup's type and time.

The primary advantage of folder view is that it provides a way to see and quickly pick the desired backup when performing a restore, and is particularly useful for applications such as SQL Server or Exchange, where a number of databases are backed up with combinations of backup types. The two negatives are that sorting of backups when using multiple column sorting will be restricted in order to preserve the hierarchy, and creation of the hierarchical view is resource intensive, so if you have many backups over the selected time period, refreshing the view will be slower than refreshing a view with no folders.

As noted previously, sorting by Date/Time will be restricted in order to preserve the backups in their folder groups. If you wish sort all backups by Date/Time, you should turn off the folder view. When not using folder view, statuses are displayed with no hierarchical grouping, so sorting by any field will sort all backups or vaulting operations within the status pane.

In addition, there are a number of backup and vaulting reports available via the "Reports" system as well. These may be used to view backup and vaulting information in a more granular and detailed fashion as well as enabling more flexible querying of historical backup and vaulting operations.