XO 6 backup UI

[olivierlambert]

Here is some Unitrend backup screenshots to give us some ideas on how to improve our backup part of XO.

Ideas:

• progress bar for a backup job
• more graphical dashboard (last backup status doughnut, protected vs unprotected, avg backup speed…
• list of VMs with day of week displaying successful/failed days (one row for backup, one for CR/DR)
• been able to group select VM to apply them a new (or existing?) backup job
• more graphical reports (doughnut failed/succeed/skipped/warning, avg speed, remote size)
• protection summary reports

[usbalbin]

(Disclaimer, I am not familiar with the code, also not sure if this should be a separate issue. Feel free to delete/move this comment)

As for

• progress bar for a backup job

I tend to have two tabs in my browser when watching a backup's progress. One for the backup log to figure out what VM is being processed and the other for the progress of that VM.

Is there currently any way to, in code, figure out which task in the /tasks-page corresponds to what stage in a running backup job? With that information it would be possible to put a percentage text or actual progress bar next to the status thing where it says snapshot, merge etc, right?

Is that something that would be hard to do in the current GUI? If not, I might give it a go if I knew where/how to start.

[olivierlambert]

There's absolutely nothing done right now in XO code to do that. But it's planned to create XO tasks (and not just XAPI tasks) to get a global progress, yes.

[usbalbin]

Oh, okay :)