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10 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
(for creating a new Backup/Restore/Validation task you have to go to the Home tab of the main tool
bar).
The Tasks page consists of the two main sections: the Tasks list and Task details.
The Tasks list is the general list of all the tasks created in Acronis vmProtect Agent. The tasks list
contains the Backup, Restore and Validate operations which were created at the respective sections
of the Home tab in the main tool bar.
The task list is presented with the following columns:
Name the unique task identifier.
Type Backup, Restore or Validation.
State & Progress Idle or In Progress.
Last finish time the time passed since this task finished last.
State
& Progress 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 Success,
Warning or Error. This status is shown in the form of the icon green for successful last operation,
yellow for the tasks with warnings at the last run, and red for the task that ended in failure last
time. Those Last finish time field
empty.
You can sort the tasks list by clicking the column header. For switching between the ascending and
descending sort order click the column header one more time.
On the Tasks management page you can Run, Cancel, Edit, Delete or Show log for any of the tasks in
the list by using the respective buttons in the ribbon bar (please, see subsections below). These
operation buttons are enabled only when selecting a task in the list.
Also, you can check the Task details for any of the tasks by clicking it in the list. The details of the
selected task appear in the right section where you can switch between the tabs to see the
information about this task (please, see "Viewing task details" section (p. 53))
10.1 Running a task
You can run the selected idle task by clicking the Run button in the top ribbon menu. Upon running,
the status of the task will be changed
