Icons on the job queue display, Monitoring backups, The backup status screen – Storix Software SBAdmin TSM Edition Users Guide User Manual

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Icons on the Job Queue Display

The icons for the queues and jobs display a symbol representing the status of the queue or job. The following is
a list of possible status icons that may appear:

A queue in which a job is currently running

A queue in which a job has failed (click on queue and job icons to see why)

A job that is currently running

A pending job (waiting for a prior job to complete)

A job that has failed (click on icon to display job information)

A job placed on hold by the user

Job is waiting for a server to become available before starting

The status of a queue or queued job is checked every few seconds and the icons are automatically updated
with the new status, if changed. When a job has completed successfully, the icon for the job is removed from
the screen. Once the last job in a queue has completed successfully, the queue icon is also removed from the
screen.

Monitoring Backups

By selecting a backup job on the Main Screen and then pressing the

Show Status/Output

button at the

bottom of the screen, you can view the backup in progress, or information about a failed backup.

The Backup Status Screen

A detailed status report of a job that is currently running, or one which has failed may be displayed at any
time by pressing the

Status Report

button at the bottom of the

Job Queue Display

. The status screen for

the currently selected job will be displayed such as the following example:

The Job ID and Server are shown at the top of the screen. The middle section will contain a set of boxes for
each client in the job. The corresponding client is indicated in the button at the far left. The additional fields
and buttons on the screen correspond to the client selected. Select a

client button

to display the

progress

bar

, time and performance information, or backup output (using the additional button) for a particular client.

Next to each client button is a list of values, indicating the approximate progress of the backup. This shows
the

estimated time and size of the backup, the actual time elapsed and amount of data written so far, and

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