HP Storage Essentials V5.1 User Guide First Edition (T4283-96026, August 2006)

Storage Essentials 5.1 User Guide 383
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 383
• ”Requirements for Using Backup Manager” on page 384
• ”Accessing Backup Manager” on page 385
• ”Determining if Last Night’s Backup was Successful” on page 385
• ”Determining if You Have Enough Media to Run a Backup” on page 388
• ”About the User Interface” on page 389
• ”About the Summary Backup Charts” on page 398
• ”About the Tabs in the Lower Pane” on page 402
• ”Modifying Summary Backup Charts” on page 405
• ”Viewing Charts for a Backup Manager” on page 407
• ”Printing Summary Charts” on page 407
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 DataProtectorare 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 384 for more information.
The management server is able to detect the following after you obtain backup details: