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Continuous Backup Monitoring

The continuous backup repository monitoring is run by the File Access Manager Scheduled Task Handler service. The monitoring starts 3 hours after the service begins and checks the continuous_backup snapshots once an hour. The results are displayed in the File Access Manager Admin Client Event Viewer. In case of errors, more detailed results can be found in the File Access Manager Scheduled Task Handler log and the Elasticsearch log.

There is also an option to generate a report that provides more details in case of failures, including the name of the last successful snapshot.

Elasticsearch Continuous Backup Monitoring Configurations

Important

The monitoring configurations should not be changed. However, if there is a temporary need to adjust them, this can be done in the TaskScheduler’s App.config file.

  • elasticBackupHealthMonitoringPoolingIntervalInSeconds – The interval to check the continuous_backup snapshots (default is 3600 seconds – 1 hour).
  • elasticBackupHealthMonitoringDueTimeInSeconds – The due time before starting to monitor the continuous_backup snapshots (default is 7200 seconds – 2 hours). Snapshots will start being taken one hour after enabling the backup.
  • maxTimeSinceLastSuccessfulSnapshotInMinutes – The period since the last successful snapshot before the backup status is set to Failure (default is 180 minutes – 3 hours).

Note

A useful command for manual monitoring is ‘GET _slm/policy/fam-backup’.