User's Manual

786 CHAPTER 19: BACKING UP DEVICE CONFIGURATIONS
Backup Audit Report
The Backup Audit report determines how recently the devices on your
network have been backed up and which devices have not yet been
backed up.
You can generate a Backup Audit report at any time from the Generate
Reports tab of the Reports dialog box, launched from Tools > Reports.
The Backup Audit report lists the following:
■ The devices on your network that have one or more backups available.
A hyperlink to the most recently saved backup file for each device is
provided, see “
Backup Files” on page 786 for more information.
■ The 3Com devices on your network that have no backups associated
with them. For devices that are not supported by Backup, Restore and
Setup, 3Com Network Director provides further details on the reason
why.
Backup Files The Device Backup operation creates a new backup file each time it
successfully saves the configuration of a device. You can view the
contents of a backup file by:
■ Clicking Label in the Backup Audit report to view the most recent
backup file for any device in the current map.
■ Clicking View Backup in the Backup Summary report to view the
backup file created by the corresponding Device Backup operation.
■ Locating a backup file on your hard disk and opening the file directly
using your web browser. See “
Managing Backup Files” on page 807
for details on how to do this.
See“
Understanding Backup Files” on page 807 for an explanation of the
contents of your backup files.
Backup files are best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or
later). 3Com strongly recommends that you do not edit the contents of
any backup files.