Monitoring Operations

The Group Control Details feature available in the Backup administration program enables you to view more detailed information about a completed group backup. Use this feature to determine which client save sets were backed up successfully and which save sets failed.

The Group Control Details window displays the status of client save sets in the backup process in one of three message fields:

• Pending Save Sets - displays the client save sets that have not yet been backed up.

• Completed Save Sets - displays the client save sets that Backup has successfully backed up.

• Failed Save Sets - displays the client save sets that Backup did not back up (typically because of a machine or network crash).

You can use the Group Control Preview feature to simulate a backup for a specific group. This feature helps you identify potential problems before Backup runs an upcoming group backup. To preview a backup group with the Backup administration program, display the Group Control window and click the Preview button. To preview a backup group from the command line, become root on the Backup server, then issue the savegrp -p group-name command at the shell prompt.

Backup displays information about how a group will perform during its next scheduled backup, instead of displaying past information about completed group backups.