Operation Manual

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Monitoring
 Centralized view for activities. The new Activities tab enables viewing and auditing activities
from all machines in a single place. Each account has a view scoped to their area of control.
 Improved problem detection via alerts. The new Alerts tab was added. Alerts are raised not only
on errors or failures, but also on frozen, missed, or corrupted backups, exceeded quotas. Once a
problem is resolved, the alert is automatically dismissed.
Backup
 Self-service backup monitor. Backup monitor (in a Windows taskbar or an OS X menu bar)
enables the end users to control the backup process:
 Protect the machine with a single click immediately after the agent installation.
 View the backup progress.
 Prevent the backups from running.
 Backup replication. The ability to replicate backups (p. 33) to a local folder or to a network share.
Separate retention rules can be applied to the second destination.
 Advanced backup schemes. The ability to choose a backup scheme (p. 32) (Always full; Weekly
full, Daily incremental; Custom) when configuring a disk-level backup to a local or a network
folder.
 Advanced scheduling options. The ability to create a backup plan without a predefined schedule
and to disable a schedule for an existing backup plan. The plans with the disabled schedule can
be run manually.
 Flexible backup configuration. The new backup options give you more control over the backup
process:
 Backup consolidation
 Backup splitting
 Compression level
 Fast incremental/differential backup
 File-level security
 Task failure handling
Recovery
 Simplified P2V and V2P migration. The ability to recover backups of physical machines as virtual
machines and vice versa (p. 54) by using the web interface.
 Enhanced backups management. The new Backups tab enables browsing and management (p.
48) of locally stored backups, including backups of machines which are no longer present in the
backup console. Each account has a view scoped to their area of control.
 More recovery options:
 Restart the machine automatically after a recovery is finished.
Other
 Backup agents (p. 18) and bootable media now support HTTP proxy servers.
 It is now possible to delete a single backup (p. 48).
 The backup agent setup language can now be selected in the setup program.
 Usability fixes and improvements. The user interface was improved to simplify the backup and
recovery configuration.