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19 Setting Up the Dell™ DR Series System as an NFS Target on Amanda Enterprise 3.3.5
3.6 Activating a backup
A backup set must be activated for automatically-scheduled backups to execute. Backup sets must be
activated individually.
1. On the Backup tab, click now.
2. In the Backup Set Activation section, click Activate Now to activate a backup set.
3. For immediate execution of a backup set, click Start Backup Now in the Immediate Backup
section. You can execute an immediate backup at any time.
When an Immediate Backup is run, you can observe the progress of the backup in the Monitor
page.