HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96056, November 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 395
10 Managing Backups
IMPORTANT: Depending on your license, Backup Manager may not be available. See the “List of
Features” to determine if you have access to Backup Manager. The “List of Features” is accessible
from the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials).
This chapter describes the following:
• ”About Backup Manager” on page 395
• ”Requirements for Using Backup Manager” on page 396
• ”Accessing Backup Manager” on page 397
• ”Determining if Last Night’s Backup was Successful” on page 397
• ”Determining if You Have Enough Media to Run a Backup” on page 400
• ”About the User Interface” on page 401
• ”About the Summary Backup Charts” on page 410
• ”About the Tabs in the Lower Pane” on page 414
• ”Modifying Summary Backup Charts” on page 417
• ”Viewing Charts for a Backup Manager” on page 419
• ”Printing Summary Charts” on page 419
About Backup Manager
Backup Manager lets you do the following:
• Monitor the overall status of the backup process
• Visualize the backup configuration and recoverability of a file, directory, volume or a server
• View the status of the physical infrastructure supporting the backup process, backup application,
backup server, network, tape library and media
• Provide information on reasons for backup failures and advisory information for configuring new
backup schedules.
Backup Manager monitors your backup applications running on discovered hosts. To determine
which backup applications (for example: HP Data Protector) are supported, refer to the support
matrix, which is accessible from the Documentation Center.
IMPORTANT: Additional steps are required before you can use Backup Manager. See
”Requirements for Using Backup Manager” on page 396 for more information.
The management server is able to detect the following after you obtain backup details: