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Reviewing Job History

See every job that ran, find out why one failed, and run a backup again.

Applies to: NovaBACKUP 22 PC Agent and Server Agent.

Job History keeps a record of every backup, restore, and other job that has run on this computer. Use it to confirm that backups ran, to find out why one failed, and to run a backup again.

The job list

Click Job History in the menu on the left. The newest job is at the top.

Job History page listing several backup and restore runs

ColumnWhat it shows
Started and EndedWhen the job started and finished.
OperationThe kind of job, for example Backup, Restore, or Disaster Recovery Backup.
Job NameThe name of the backup job. Restores started from the Restore page are named Interactive restore.
ResultA green circle for successful, yellow for completed with warnings, and red for failed.
DurationHow long the job took.
Errors and WarningsHow many errors and warnings the job reported.
Objects Selected, Objects Completed, Objects Skipped, and Size CompletedHow many files and how much data the job processed. Scroll to the right to see all columns.

Find a job

  • Click a column header to sort by it.
  • Click the filter icon in a column header to show only matching jobs, for example only Failed results, or only jobs whose name contains Cloud.
  • Use the controls at the bottom to move between pages and to show 10, 25, 50, or 100 jobs per page.

Open a job run

Click a job to open its details.

Details of a successful backup run with the summary and the Messages list

  • The summary at the top shows the result, the times, the device, and the counts.
  • The Messages list below shows each message the job logged, with its Type: Information, Warning, or Error. Filter the Type column to show only warnings and errors.

Run a backup again

The details of a backup run include a Run again button. It runs the backup job again with its current settings and opens the Activity page. Restore jobs cannot be run again from here.

When a job fails

  1. Open the run and filter Messages to Error.
  2. Check the first error. It is usually the cause, and later errors follow from it.
  3. If the error names the device, check the Backup Destinations panel on the Dashboard to confirm that the device is Online.
  4. Fix the cause, then click Run again.

If you contact NovaBACKUP Support about a failed job, include the error message text and the time the job ran.

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