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13.2 Cancelling a task

You can cancel the selected active task by clicking the Cancel button. You’ll be asked to confirm the
operation. Upon confirmation the progressing task will be immediately stopped and will go into the
idle state.

The Cancel button for the idle task is disabled, as you can only cancel the task that is currently
running.

13.3 Editing a task

You can edit the selected task by clicking the Edit button. Depending on the task type, you will go to
the respective section of the Actions tab – backup, restore, validate, etc. There, you will see all the
sections of the backup/restore/validation/etc. wizard which you completed while creating that task.
All the steps of the wizard will appear on the screen at once, where you can see the current task
settings and can change any of these settings. (For further information, please, refer to sections
“Creating a backup of virtual machines” (p. 31), “Restoring a backup of virtual machines” (p. 55) ,
“Validating backups” (p. 92), etc.).

13.4 Deleting a task

You can delete the selected task by clicking the Delete button. You’ll be asked to confirm the
operation. Upon the confirmation, it will be immediately erased.

13.5 Viewing task logs

You can see the selected task logs by clicking the last result status. You will go to the Logs view (View
-> Show Logs) section, where you can see all the logs for the current task (Please, see “Managing
Logs” sections (p. 95)).

13.6 Viewing task details

Upon selecting any task in the task list, you can view its details in the Summary and Source and
Target tabs. Note that the tabs could present the varying information depending on the task type –
backup, restore, validation, etc. The sections below describe the tabs contents for the backup task.

The Summary tab gives overview details of the current selected task. Here is an example of the
possible contents of the Summary section for the backup task:

Start time: 06/29/2012 12:49
Remaining time: 41 sec
Last finish time: N/A
Last result: Not run yet
Bytes transmitted: 1.219 GB