Backup Job History - How To
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View Backup Job History
View the Items That Were Protected During a Data Protection Operation
View the Items That Failed For a Data Protection Operation
View Job History Details
View the Media or Mount Paths of a Job History
View the Events of a Job History
View the Log Files of a Job History
View the Items that Were Not Indexed During Content Indexing
View the Items that Were Successfully Content Indexed
To
view backup history:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity (client computer,
iDataAgent, backup set or subclient) whose backup history you want to view,
click View, and then click View Backup History.
- From the Backup
History
filter window select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click
OK. The system displays the
Backup Job
History
window.
- Click OK.
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This option is available for File System-like agents. |
Required Capability: none required
To
view the list of items that were protected during a data protection operation.
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity whose history of data
protection operations you want to view, click View, and then click
the necessary options to view a job
history.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the Job
History window, right-click the operation whose list of protected items you want to view,
and then select View backup file list/View Backed Up Messages. The
Backup file List window displays a list of the backed up
files/messages
that were included in the backup job. You can use the Search
option to find items in the window.
- Click File -> Exit.
- Click Close from the Job History window.
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A listing of files and folders that failed is not available for the
Quick Recovery Agent, nor the Image Level and Image Level ProxyHost iDataAgents.
These agents do not perform a file level backup/copy. |
To
view the list of items that failed for a data protection operation:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity whose history of data
protection operations you want to view, click View, and then click to view a job
history.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the Job
History window, right-click the operation whose list of failed items you want to view,
and then select View Failed Items. The Unsuccessful
Backup Files window (for DataArchiver Agents, Items
On Which Archive Failed) displays those items that failed. If no items failed, a message to that
effect is displayed.
- Click Close.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
view the details of a job history:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity (e.g., subclient, client
computer, etc.) whose job history you want to view,
click View, and then
click job history.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options that you want to apply and click OK.
- From the
Data Management Job
History window, right-click the job whose job details you want to view, and then click View
Job Details.
- The Job Details dialog box appears, displaying detailed job history in
General,
Details,
Phase
Details and
Attempts
tabs for the selected job.
- Click OK.
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If viewing the details of a job with a pending or failed status, the
Reason for Job Delay field will contain an Error Code, which, if clicked,
will launch the customer support website displaying troubleshooting article(s)
related to the specific issue. |
To
view media or mount paths associated with a job history:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity (e.g., subclient, client computer,
etc.) whose job history you want to view, click View, and then select the appropriate
history.
- From the Job
History window select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the job history widow, right-click the backup whose media or mount
paths you want to view, and then click View
Media.
- The
Media Used
By Job ID
window displays a list of media or mount paths used by the operation.
- Click OK.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To
view the events associated with a job:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity (e.g., subclient, client computer,
etc.) whose job history you want to view, click View, and then click
Job History.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options that you want to apply and click OK.
- From the
Data Management Job
History window, right-click the job whose job details you want to view, and then click View
Events.
- The All
Found Events window gets displayed. If no events where found for the back up, a message is displayed to that
effect.
- Click Close.
Required Capability: See
Capabilities and Permitted Actions
To view the log files
of a Job History:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity whose job history you want to view, and then
click to view a job history.
- From the job history filter window select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the job history window, right-click the job whose log files you want to view, and then click
View Logs.
- The contents of the log file related to the selected job history are displayed in
the Log File for Job n window.
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This option is available for operations that performed content indexing. |
To
view the list items that were not indexed during content indexing:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity whose operations you want to view, click View, and then click
the necessary options to view a job
history.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the Job
History window, right-click the job for which you want to view the
successfully content indexed items, select View Content Index, and click
Successful Items.
- Click Close.
- Click Close from the Job History window.
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This option is available for operations that performed content indexing. |
To
view the list of items that failed to content index:
- From the CommCell Browser, right-click the entity whose operations you want to view, click View, and then click
the necessary options to view a job
history.
- From the Job
History Filter dialog box, select the filter options, if any, that you want to apply, and then click OK.
- From the Job
History window, right-click the job for which you want to view the list of
items failed to content index, select View Content Index, and click
Failed Items.
- Click Close.
- Click Close from the Job History window.
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