Better Server Backups

Whether you're using native backups or a compressed backup system - you KNOW how important server backups are - but did you know that unless you are using Event Manager, you're not getting optimal performance from your backup software/hardware?

Gain immediate control of all the backup activity across even the largest cross-platform enterprises quickly and easily with Event Manager. In one view, a calendar lists every backup event on every server. Event Manager also allows you to easily create "shared resource views", which are calendars of your backup jobs that utilize the same network resource, such as a NAS (Network Attached Storage) or SAN (Storage Area Network) device, or even a network segment. Any conflicts are easily identified on the calendar and remedied by drag and drop rescheduling. Event Manager even ships with several pre-configured sample views for various compressed backup systems to make getting started a breeze, including Quest LiteSpeed, Idera SQLsafe, and Red Gate SQL Backup.

About Event Manager's Calendar View
The events (SQL Server Agent jobs, Oracle jobs or Windows tasks) which have scheduling conflicts will automatically show up on the Event Manager calendar view with an orange background. From here, you simply drag-and-drop future event instances within the calendar to eliminate the scheduling conflicts and reduce associated contention. As you drag-and-drop event instances to reduce conflicts, Event Manager changes the backgrounds to white, denoting “no conflicts”.

When all events in your Event Manager calendar view have a white background, you know you have a “leveled” schedule. A leveled schedule ensures that any bottlenecks and associated IO errors on the SAN's disk subsystem and network are minimized, and that the backups will run at optimal speed. Also, any changes or additions to your backup plans in the future will be immediately visible through Event Manager for continued optimal performance!