Managing Tasks

Click Tasks in the View tab of the main menu to open the Tasks page (View->Tasks), where you can see the details and perform the operations with your tasks. Note that the Tasks page allows performing the basic operations with the existing tasks only, and doesn’t let you create new tasks (for creating a new Backup/Restore/Validation/etc. task you have to go to the Home tab of the main tool bar).

The page presents a general list of all the tasks created in Acronis vmProtect 8 Agent. The tasks list contains the Backup, Restore, Validate, etc. operations which were created at the respective sections of the Home tab in the main tool bar.

The task list presents the following information about the task:

Tasks that are currently stopped appear as “idle” ones. If the task is currently running, then the Status field shows the progress of the current activity in percentage (e.g. 35%).

Moreover, all the tasks which have already been executed have the last result status – Succeeded (last run was successful), Warning (the task finished with warnings at the last run) or Error (the task ended in failure last time). You can see the task logs by clicking the last result status. Those tasks which were not run yet don’t have this status, and have the Last finish time field empty.

You can sort the tasks by selecting the sort criterion from the drop-down list in the top right corner. You can sort the tasks by its Creation time, Last finish time, Last result, Name, Next start time, Status and Task type in the ascending or descending order.

On the Tasks management page you can Run, Cancel, Edit or Delete any of the tasks in the list by using the respective buttons (please, see subsections below).

You can check the details for any of the tasks in the list by viewing the Summary and Source and Target tabs (please, see "Viewing task details" section).

In this section

Running a task

Cancelling a task

Editing a task

Deleting a task

Viewing task logs

Viewing task details