Dashboard

Use the Dashboard to estimate at a glance whether the data is successfully protected on the machine. The dashboard shows the summary of Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent’s activities and enables you to rapidly identify and resolve any issues.

  Alerts  

The alerts section draws your attention to issues that have occurred on the machine and offers you ways of fixing or examining them. The most critical issues are displayed on the top. If there are no alerts or warnings at the moment, the system displays “No alerts or warnings”.

  Types of alerts  

The table below illustrates the types of messages you may observe.

 

Description

Offer

Comment

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Failed tasks: X

Resolve

Resolve will open the Backup plans and Tasks view with failed tasks, where you can examine the reason of failure.

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Tasks that need interaction: X

Resolve

Each time a task needs human interaction, the Dashboard shows a message to inform you what action has to be performed (for example, insert new CD or Stop/Retry/Ignore on an error).

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Failed to check the license for the current edition. X day(s) remaining until the software stops working.

Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server.

Connect

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent connects to Acronis License Server at the start and then every 1–5 days (the default is 1 day), as specified by the agent configuration parameters.

If the license check does not succeed for 1–60 days, as specified by the agent configuration parameters (the default is 30 days), the agent will stop working until there has been a successful last license check.

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Cannot check the license key for the current edition for X days. Either Acronis License Server was unavailable, or the license key data was corrupted. Check connectivity to the server and run Acronis License Server to manage licenses.

Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server.

Connect

Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 is stopped. For the past X days, the agent was unable to check whether its license is available on Acronis License Server.

This is probably due to the license server being unavailable. You may also want to ensure that the licenses are present on the license server, or that the license key data was not corrupted.

After a successful license check the agent will start working.

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Trial version of product expires in X day(s)

Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server.

Connect

Once the trial version of the product is installed, the program starts the countdown of days remaining until the trial period expires.

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Trial period is over. Start the installer and enter a full license key.

Please make sure you have a valid license on Acronis License Server.

Connect

15 day trial period has expired. Enter a full license key.

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Vaults with low free space: X

View vaults

View vaults will take you to the Vaults view where you can examine the vault size, free space, content and take the necessary steps to increase the free space.

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Bootable media was not created

Create now

To be able to recover an operating system when the machine fails to boot,
you must:

  1. Back up the system volume (and the boot volume, if it is different)
  2. Create at least one bootable media.

Create now will launch the Bootable Media Builder.

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No backups have been created for X days

Back up now

The Dashboard warns you that no data was backed up on the machine for a relatively long period of time.

Back up now will take you to Create a Backup Plan page where you can instantly configure and run the backup operation.

To configure the time interval that is considered as critical, select Options > Console options > Time-based alerts.

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Not connected to management server for X days

View the machines

This type of message can appear on a machine that is registered on a management server. The Dashboard warns you that the connection might be lost or the server might be unavailable and the machine is not centrally managed as a result.

  Activities  

The calendar lets you explore the history of the Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 agent’s activities on the machine. Right-click on any highlighted date and select View log to see the list of log entries filtered by date.

On the View section (at the right of the calendar), you can select the activities to highlight depending on the presence and severity of the errors.

 

How it is determined

Errors

Highlight the date in red if at least one “Error” entry appeared in the log on this date.

Warnings

Highlight the date in yellow if no “Error” entries appeared and at least one “Warning” entry appeared in the log on this date.

Information

Highlight the date in green if only “Information” log entries appeared on this date (normal activity.)

The Select current date link focuses selection to the current date.

  System view  

Shows summarized statistics of backup plans, tasks, and brief information on the last backup. Click the items in this section to obtain the relevant information. This will take you to the Backup plans and tasks view with pre-filtered plans or tasks. For instance, if you click Local under Backup plans, the Backup plans and tasks view will be opened with backup plans filtered by the Local origin.

Dashboard