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Backup Execution Details for a Selected Job

When you select a specific job execution the following information is displayed:

In the top pane, the following information is displayed:

Job Execution Time

The time the job started.

Job Name

The name of the job.

Note: This release of Arcserve Backup does not display blank job names in the Job Status Manager. If you upgraded from a previous Arcserve release, migrated the job history data, and the jobs contained blank job names, the names of the jobs display in the Job Name field in the Job Status Manager in the following format:

[<<machine name>>] <<job no>>

Last Result

The last result is determined from the following criteria:

• The status is marked as failed if any of the sessions in the job fail.
• The status is marked as incomplete in any of the sessions are incomplete even if some are successful.
• The status is marked as successful only if all sessions are successful.

MB

The amount of data backed up for the job.

Files

The number of files backed up for the job.

Missed

The number of files missed during the backup.

Note: Use Arcserve Backup Agent for Open Files to backup open files to avoid missed files during a backup.

MB/Minute

• At the Job level, MB/Minute indicates the ratio of megabytes and the elapsed time for the entire job, including pre and post scripts, if any, media management activities, and so on. For average master job throughput, refer to the Activity Log.
• At the Host level, MB/Minute indicates the ratio of megabytes and the elapsed time for the entire job, including pre and post scripts, if any, media management activities, and so on for a single host.
• At the Session level, MB/Minute indicates the ratio of megabytes and the elapsed time for a specific volume and its folders, which comprise a single session.

Note: If little or no data is backed up by the backup job, a value of N/A appears in the MB/Minute field.

Time Used

• At the Job level, Time Used indicates the elapsed time for the entire job including pre and post scripts, if any, media management activities, and so on.
• At the Host level, Time Used indicates the elapsed time for the entire job including pre and post scripts, if any, media management activities, and so on for a single host.
• At the Session level, Time Used indicates the elapsed time for the backup of a specific volume and its folders, which comprise a single session.

Job ID

Identifies the specific execution of the job.

Job No.

Identifies the job.

Session Number

Identifies the session number of the session that contains the backup data.

Subsession Number

Identifies the subsession number of the session contains the backup data.

Compression Ratio

The amount of actual data to be stored divided by the amount of data stored after deduplication expressed as a ratio or percentage.

In the bottom pane, the following information is displayed:

Summary

Execution Time

The start time and end time of the selected job.

Total Source Host

The total number of hosts the job attempted to backup.

Total Sessions

The number of sessions that were backed up by the selected job execution.

Total Migrations

The number of sessions migrated in a disk or tape staging job.

Device and Media

Device

The tape drive or file system device used during the backup. Multiple tape drives can also be used for the same host in a single job execution if the job is a multi streaming job.

Media Used

The media that was used during the backup of the host. Multiple media can also be used for the same host in a single job execution if the job is a multi streaming job.

Error and Warning

Displays the errors and warnings that are generated during the back up of a host.

More information:

View Compression Results after Deduplication