Copying jobs, selection lists, and policies

Backup Exec enables you to copy all jobs (including backup, report, utility, and archive jobs), selection lists, and policies that were created on your media server to the same media server, or to another media server.

To copy jobs, selection lists, or polices to other media servers, the Copy Server Configurations feature must be installed.

See About Backup Exec's standard features.

To copy jobs, selection lists, or policies

  1. On the media server's navigation bar, click Job Setup.

  2. Select the job, backup selection list, or policy you want to copy.

  3. In the task list, under General Tasks, click Copy.

  4. Select the appropriate options as follows:

    Copy to this media server

    Select this option if you want to copy to this media server.

    Copy to other media servers

    Select this option if you want to copy to other media servers.

    Destination media servers

    If you are copying to other servers, select the media server you want to copy to. If the media server doesn't appear on the list, click Add, and then enter the media server name.

    Overwrite jobs with identical names that already exist on the destination media server

    Select this option if you want to overwrite an existing job, selection list, or policy having the same name.

    Overwrite logon accounts used by this job that already exist on the destination server

    Select this option if you want to overwrite logon accounts for an existing job having the same name. This option only appears if you are copying a job to another media server.

    Add

    Click this button if you want to add a media server to the Destination media servers list.

    Edit

    Select a media server, and then click this button if you want to edit information stored for a media server, such as logon account information.

    Remove

    Select a media server, and then click this button if you want to remove a media server from the Destination media servers list.

    Import List

    Click this button if you want to import a list of media servers to the Destination media servers list. The list should include only the media server name, with one per line.

  5. Click OK.

    The operation is queued. The default time-out is five minutes; if the transfer cannot be completed within five minutes, the transfer is terminated and an alert is issued. The queue checks for copy jobs every 60 seconds, and then sends all the copy jobs that are queued.

    Backup Exec sends an alert with the job success or failure status along with a log file that allows you to view results. The job log for Copy to Media Server jobs does not display with the other job logs in the Job History.

To view the job log for a copy to media server job

  1. On the navigation bar, click Alerts.

  2. Click Active Alerts or Alert History.

  3. Click the Source column heading.

  4. Locate an alert with "Job" as a Source and "Copy to Media Server job" as a Job Name.

  5. Right-click the alert, and then select View Job Log.

  6. If a Copy to Media Server alert does not exist, do one of the following:

    To enable the alert from the task pane

    • In the task pane, under Alert Tasks, click Configure alert categories.

    • Enable the Job Failed and Job Success alert categories.

    To enable the alert from the Tools menu

    • On the Tools menu, click Options.

    • In the Properties pane, under Settings, click Preferences.

    • Check Automatically display new alerts.