Monitoring The Task Progress And Results; What Else You Can Do; Recovering A Virtual Machine - ACRONIS Backup & Recovery 10 Advanced Server Virtual Edition Quick Start Manual

8. Click OK to create the backup plan. The backup starts immediately. The machines will be backed
up one after another.
8.2.2.

Monitoring the task progress and results

After a short time during which the backup tasks are created, you are taken to the All physical
machines view. The corresponding virtual appliance and its Information > Backup plans and tasks tab
are selected. Here you can see the backup plan's execution state: Running.
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To view the backup tasks' progress and states, expand the backup plan. To view the log of a
certain task, right-click the task and select View log from the context menu.
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To view the operations log, select Log in the Navigation tree. To filter the log entries for a certain
machine, type the machine name into the Managed entity column header.
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To view the created archives, expand Vaults > Centralized in the Navigation tree and then select
the vault where you saved the archives. Select the Disk archives tab. Every archive contains one
backup of one virtual machine.
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To view the content of a backup, expand an archive, select a backup and then click View content
> As files.
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To view a summary of operations, check for warnings and check free space in your vaults, select
Dashboard in the Navigation tree.
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To view when and how successfully a virtual machine was backed up, select any group that
contains the machine. See the Status and the Last backup columns. The Status can be OK,
Warning or Error depending on how successfully the last backup task has completed on the
machine. The same information is available on your vCenter in the Virtual machines tab and also
in each machine's Summary > Annotations.
8.2.3.

What else you can do

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Once the backup task is completed, you can run it again at any time. Every task run will append a
full backup to each machine's archive.
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You can schedule a backup plan. After N executions on schedule, every archive will contain N
backups of the same machine. However, new machines that may appear on the ESX/ESXi server
before the backup starts, will not be backed up. To set up a backup of all machines present on
the server at the time of backup, apply a backup policy to a dynamic group of machines hosted
on the server. The required steps are described later in this document.
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You can set up retention rules to get rid of old backups in a timely manner.
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You can customize backup operations using various backup options, such as pre/post backup
commands, network bandwidth throttling, error handling or notification options.

8.3. Recovering a virtual machine

In this step, you will recover a virtual machine from the backup you previously created.
Creating the recovery task
1. Connect the console to the management server.
2. In the Navigation tree, expand Vaults > Centralized and then select the vault where you saved
the archives. If prompted, provide access credentials for the vault.
3. Select the Disk archives tab.
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