After completing the installation and wizards Backup Exec will load and you will be taken to the overview section of the console. The overview section has a lot of information which is very valuable in setting up and learning to use the software. You can also switch to a system summary on the left side which will show you a lot of good information. The job setup section is where you can view jobs, templates, and backup selection lists that have been setup. To the left there is a menu where you can do just about everything converting backing up and restoring. Backing up and restoring will be looked at in more detail later in the review.
In the job monitor section you can view jobs that are active or on hold as well as job history. When a job finishes it will then be put in the job history section where you can view more information about that job. The alerts section holds information such as warning, errors, and other useful information. This is a good place to look if you have problems or need information about what is going on with the software.
There are a lot of reports that you can run to get information about almost anything. When you select a report to run you can customize it to get certain dates or other specific information. When you run the report it will query the database and output your report. You can then read over your results, print them, or save them as a HTML document. These reports could be very helpful especially in a company that wants a lot of information.
The devices section shows the stand-alone drives, robotic libraries, backup-to-disk folders, and cascade drive pools installed. I have added a back-to-disk folder which is on my RAID 1 drive for backups I don’t need on tape. Finally the media section is where you can view all the media that you have. You can view, move, rename, and delete media and media sets from here. You can also see imported media which could be media from previous backups with NT Backup.
