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The center area contains the jobs currently in the queue. The jobs are placed, and will be run, in the order
they were added to the queue. To show a summary of the information for a job, click on the icon
corresponding to the Job ID. The job information will appear in the display area to the right and the selected
job icon will be highlighted.

The

status bar

at the upper-right also shows the status of jobs in the queue. If the

Running

light is

green

, at

least one backup job is currently running. The

Pending

light shows

yellow

if there are queued jobs that have

not yet run because they are waiting for another job to complete or are waiting for the server to become
available. The

Failed

(

red

) light illuminates if there is a failed job in the queue (usually preventing other jobs

from running).

The

action buttons

below the list of queues or jobs will apply to the selected queue or selected job.

Icons on the Job Queue Display

The icons for the queues and jobs display a symbol representing the status of the queue or job. The following is
a list of possible status icons that may appear:

A queue in which a job is currently running

A queue in which a job has failed (click on queue and job icons to see why)

A job that is currently running

A pending job (waiting for a prior job to complete)

A job that has failed (click on icon to display job information)

A job placed on hold by the user

Job is waiting for a device to become available before starting.

The status of a queue or queued job is checked every few seconds and the icons are automatically updated
with the new status, if changed. When a job has completed successfully, the icon for the job is removed from
the screen. Once the last job in a queue has completed successfully, the queue icon is also removed from the
screen.

Monitoring Backups

By selecting a backup job on the Main Screen and then pressing the

Show Status/Output

button at the

bottom of the screen, you can view the backup in progress, or information about a failed backup.

The Backup Status Screen

A detailed status report of a job that is currently running, or one which has failed may be displayed at any
time by pressing the

Show Status/Output

button at the bottom of the

Job Queue Display

. The status screen

for the currently selected job will be displayed such as the following example:

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