The Home Window: summary information and common areas in BackupAssist
 

The Home Window is the first screen you will see each time you load BackupAssist and has shortcuts to all of the major areas of BackupAssist.

To access the Home Window shown above:

  1. Click Home in the navigation bar.

The following shortcuts are provided on the Home Window:

Create a new backup job
View job list
Monitor a running job
View job reports
Modify settings
View licensing information
Feedback and help

The Home Window also has various summary sections located to the right of the window. These sections are explained in greater depth below.

Jobs in progress summary
monitor summary

Any jobs that currently running will be listed in the top-right of the Home Window .

  1. Click the Job Link to be taken directly to the Monitor Window for more details of the job's progress.
Most recent backup reports
recent reports

The last five backup reports are listed to the middle-right of the Home Window in date order.

  1. Click the Job Link of any report to load a detailed backup report with further information.
Messages and updates
recent reports

Each time you launch BackupAssist the software will attempt to connect to the Internet to check for any product news or updates. If any items are found, they will be listed in the bottom-right of the Home Window.

  1. Click any Link for more details on each item.

If the machine running BackupAssist does not have an Internet connection, you can check for news and updates directly on the BackupAssist website.
Visit the BackupAssist website


See also
 

The Monitor Window
The Reports Window