Protect

The Protect page provides status information about assets and copied assets, and enables you to create jobs to protect these assets.

The Protect page contains the following tabs:

Notes:   

Only UI elements that are applicable to your environment display. For example, if your appliance is not receiving hot copies from another Unitrends appliance, the Copied Assets tab does not display and protected assets display on the main page (you do not see a Protected Assets tab).

 

This tab enables you to view your entire inventory of protected assets and see the status of backups and backup copies that ran over the last seven days. For more information about data protection, see the Protection Overview chapter.

See the following for details on working with the Protected Assets tab:

Buttons

The buttons that display on the Protect Assets tab vary by environment. If you do not see a button, the feature is not applicable to your appliance. The following buttons may display:

• Backup – Opens the Create Backup Job dialog. For details on using this dialog to create a backup job, see Creating backup jobs.
• Backup Copy – Opens the Create Backup Copy Job dialog. For details on using this dialog to create a backup copy job, see Creating backup copy jobs.
• Data Copy Access – Opens the Create Data Copy Access Job dialog. For details on using this dialog to create a data copy access job, see Recovery assurance procedures.
• SLA Policy – Opens the Create SLA Policy dialog. With SLA policies, the appliance automatically creates the backup and backup copy jobs needed for the assets, RPO, and retention settings specified in the policy. For details, see Creating SLA policies.
• Create Replicas – Click and select Windows to open the Create Windows Replica dialog, or click and select VMware to open the Create Replica VMs dialog. For details on creating replicas, see Windows file-level replicas and VM replicas.
• Gear icon – Click to adjust the refresh rate of the Protect page.

Note:  Before running jobs, it is recommended to review Preparing for backups and About creating backup and backup copy jobs to determine how you will implement your protection strategy.

All managed appliances and their protected assets display in a tree view:

• Appliances display as top-level nodes.
• Agent-based physical and virtual assets, and virtual hosts display as second-level sub-nodes.
• Hosted VMs and applications display as sub-nodes under their host asset.

To customize the inventory tree display, you can group assets in custom folders and assign users to the groups you create. See Grouping assets in custom folders for details.

Use these options while working with the inventory tree:

• To look for an asset by name, use the Search field below.
• To view asset groups, click the Show Groups icon located above the tree.
• To add, remove, or edit asset groups, click the Manage Groups pencil icon located above the tree. The Manage Groups icon displays only in Show Groups mode.
• To hide asset groups, click the Hide Groups icon located above the tree.
• To view all assets, click the Expand All icon located above the tree.

Selecting an appliance or asset in the inventory tree populates the status table with details about backups and backup copies that ran within the last seven days for the applicable assets. Job status icons display in the Backup and Backup Copies columns. Click a status icon to view more details. If the Backup or Backup Copies icon is gray, no job ran for the asset on that day. See these examples for details:

Select an appliance to view backup and copy status for all its protected assets:

Select a virtual host or application to view backup and copy status for its hosted VMs or instances:

Select a single agent-based asset or virtual machine to view its backup and copy status:

After selecting an appliance or asset in the inventory tree, you can filter the display results by using these fields:

• Name field - Enter text to display only asset names that contain the string you entered.
• Backup drop-down - Select an item from this list to display only assets with backups that meet the condition you selected. For example, select Failed in the last 7 days to see only assets with backups that have failed in the last 7-day period, or No successes in the last 7 days to see only the assets that have not had a successful backup in the last 7-day period (this includes cases where no backup jobs have run and cases where backups have run but none were successful).
• Backup Copies drop-down - Select an item from this list to display only assets with backup copies that meet the condition you selected. For example, select Failed in the last 7 days to see only the assets with backup copies that have failed in the last 7-day period, or No successes in the last 7 days to see only the assets that have not had a successful backup copy in the last 7-day period (this includes cases where no backup copy jobs have run and cases where backup copies have run but none were successful).

To view details of an asset's backups or copies that ran on a given day:

1 Click a status icon for an overview of the backup or copy jobs that ran, by status.
2 Click Details to view the Backup Status dialog.

3 (Optional) Do either of the following:
• Click Delete Failed Backups or Delete Failed Backup Copies to remove failed jobs from the appliance. (This button displays only if failures occurred.)

• Click Add to Hot Backup Copy Queue to copy successful full backups to the Unitrends Cloud or to another Unitrends appliance. (This button displays only if a hot backup copy target has been added to the appliance and a backup has not yet been copied or added to the queue.)

4 Click Cancel to exit.

This tab applies to appliances that are receiving hot backup copies from another Unitrends appliance. On a backup copy target appliance, the Copied Assets tab displays the status of hot backup copies received over the last seven days. See the following for details on working with the Copied Assets tab:

Opens the Create Backup Copy Job dialog. For details on using this dialog to create a backup copy job, see Creating backup copy jobs.

All Unitrends source appliances that are sending copies to this target display in the inventory tree, along with the assets whose backups are being copied:

• Source appliances display as top-level nodes.
• Agent-based physical and virtual assets, and virtual hosts display as second-level sub-nodes.
• Hosted VMs and applications display as sub-nodes under their host asset.

Use these options while working with the inventory tree:

• To look for an asset by name, use the Search field below.
• To view all assets, click the Expand All icon located above the tree.

Selecting an appliance or asset in the inventory tree populates the status table with details about backup copies that ran within the last seven days for the applicable assets. Job status icons display in the Backup Copies column. Click a status icon to view more details. If the Backup Copies icon is grayed-out, no copy job ran for the asset on that day.

See these topics for details:

Select an appliance to view backup copy status for all its copied assets:

Select a virtual host or application to view backup copy status for its hosted VMs or instances:

Select a single agent-based asset or virtual machine to view its backup copy status:

After selecting an appliance or asset in the inventory tree, you can filter the display results by using these fields:

• Name field - Enter text to display only asset names that contain the string you entered.
• Backup Copies drop-down - Select an item from this list to display only assets with backup copies that meet the condition you selected. For example, select Failed in the last 7 days to see only the assets with backup copies that have failed in the last 7-day period, or No successes in the last 7 days to see only the assets that have not had a successful backup copy in the last 7-day period (this includes cases where no backup copy jobs have run and cases where backup copies have run but none were successful).

In this example, results are filtered to show only the assets that have not had a successful backup copy within the last seven days: