Acronis Backup for Windows Server Essentials - User Guide - Manual (Page 374)

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Virtual machines added to the management server as virtual machines are present under the Virtual
machines in the Navigation tree. For more information about available operations with these
machines see the "Backing up virtual machines" document.
15.4.4 Backup plans and tasks
The Backup plans and tasks view keeps you informed of data protection on the machines registered
on the management server. This view displays the centralized backup plans that exist on the
management server, the management server's and the storage nodes' tasks.
To check whether the data is successfully protected on the machines the centralized plan is deployed
to, inspect the cumulative status of the plan.
To find out whether a centralized backup plan is currently being deployed, removed, or updated,
check the deployment state of the plan. In each of the states, the backup plan can have one of the
following statuses: Error; Warning; OK.
To keep track of a task's current progress, examine its state (p. 321). Check a task status (p. 322) to
ascertain the result of a task.
Typical workflow

Use filters to display the desired backup plans (tasks) in the backup plans table. By default, the
table displays all the plans of the managed machine sorted by name. Additionally, you can hide
the unneeded columns and show the hidden ones. For more information, see Sorting, filtering
and configuring table items (p. 28).

In the table, select the backup plan (task).

Use the toolbar's buttons to take an action on the selected plan (task). See the Actions on
centralized backup plans and tasks (p. 374) section for details.

To review detailed information on the selected plan (task), use the information panel at the
bottom of the window. The panel is collapsed by default. To expand the panel, click the arrow
mark (
). The content of the panel is also duplicated in the Plan details (p. 327) and Task details
(p. 328) windows respectively.
15.4.4.1 Actions on centralized backup plans and tasks
The following is a guideline for you to perform operations with tasks and centralized backup plans.
To Do
Create a new
backup plan, or
a task on a
registered
machine
Click New, and select one of the following:

Backup plan (centralized) (p. 350)

Recovery task (p. 131)

Validation task (p. 233)
For the recovery or validation tasks creation, you have to specify the registered machine the
selected task will run on.
View details of
the selected
plan/task
Click View details.
In the Plan details/Task details window, examine all information related to the selected
plan/task.
View a
plan's/task's
Click View log.