Dell PowerStore Protecting Your Data

When you assign a protection policy that includes a remote backup rule to a volume or a volume group, a remote backup session is created and displayed in the Backup Sessions tab of the Remote backup page.

From the Backup Sessions tab, you can perform the following actions on a remote backup session:

• Backup—You can perform on-demand manual backup when the session is Idle. For example, if the resource was not backed up for a long period.
  NOTE:A manually created backup is subjected to the retention policy set in the remote backup rule.
• Pause—Pausing a session in an Idle state causes the session to be paused immediately. If you pause a session is when it is In Progress, the session is paused only after the current running backup is completed. Subsequent backups are not performed while the session is paused.
• Resume—Use this option to resume a paused backup session. The next backup occurs according to the set schedule.
• Delete—You can use this option only to delete a session for a resource that is protected by an external policy. For resources protected by PowerStore policy, you can delete the associated remote backup session by unassigning the policy from the resource, or removing the remote backup rule from the assigned policy.
• Cancel—You can use this option to cancel a backup session only when it is In Progress. Cancelling a session causes the current backup to be cancelled and copied data to be discarded.
  NOTE:When the session is in Prepare state, other sessions may be queued before it. When you click Cancel, the session state changes to Canceling, but the session is cancelled only when it reaches the top of the queue and becomes active (In Progress state).