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2 Administering Backup

In this chapter

Using the Administrator
Using Quick Access from Taskbar
About the Data Protector Express Service

The entire Backup Domain can be managed and monitored centrally. The Administrator is the primary

interface for administering the Backup Domain. The program displays an icon in the system taskbar and

gives you a quicker way to perform the most common administrative operations.

Using the Administrator

Data Protector Express is designed to be easy to use. This section will familiarize you with the Data

Protector Express user interface and service.

Data Protector Express Administrator

The Data Protector Express Administrator is a graphical user interface that manages and monitors your

backups. The Administrator can be run on any machine on the same network as the machines in the

Backup Domain. All machines in the Backup Domain are managed centrally from the Administrator.
The Administrator window consists of a...

1.

Menu bar — The menu bar is located at the top of the screen and contains several menus

that group together similar commands. To invoke a command from a menu, open the menu

and then select a command.

2.

Command bar — The command bar is a context sensitive set of command buttons running along

the top of the window below the menu bar. As the selected object changes the commands in

the command bar will change to reflect the current selection.

3.

Navigation Bar — The navigation bar is located in the top section of the left hand column of the

Administrator. It contains links to the major views of the product:

a.

Tasks View — this view contains shortcuts for creating jobs and other common tasks.

b.

Jobs and Media View — this view shows the User’s Home folder which contains all of

his configured jobs and the media associated with them as well as media that has been

imported or formatted. From this view you can run the jobs, modify their settings, and

view their logs.

c.

Status and Logs View — this view contains a listing tasks and jobs that have happened in

the Backup Domain

d.

Devices View — this view provides a view of all the devices in the Backup Domain. To

perform media operations like identifying or importing media, use this view to navigate

to the device containing the media in question and select the command you want from

the command bar.

e.

Advanced Views — the Advanced link contains links to the more advanced views explained

later in this document.

4.

Info bar — the info bar contains a summary of the object’s most important properties like current

status. It also contains command and control links for runnable jobs.

5.

View Pane — The main part of the screen is the detail area. The layout of this pane will vary

based on the view selected from the navigation bar.

User’s Guide

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