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Icons and symbols used in the SEP sesam GUI


The SEP sesam GUI contains various icons that represent specific resources or indicate the status of various operations. Find out the meaning of the different colors and icons used in the GUI.

Menu bar and toolbar icons

Icon Description
Dashboard.png Clicking Dashboard allows you to check SEP sesam operations and their status online.
Immediate start backup.png Clicking Immediate Start: Backup enables you to select an already configured task and start the backup immediately.
Web restore assistant.png Clicking Restore Assistant opens the online restore assistant in the external web browser.
Restore wizard.png Clicking Restore Wizard opens the wizard that enables you to start the restore immediately.
Backups.png Clicking Backups shows a list of all performed backups and their status.
Calendar sheet icon.png Clicking Calendar Sheet provides an overview of all scheduled, completed and expired events with their current status.
About SEP sesam icon.png Clicking About SEP sesam shows a SEP sesam version information.
Caps.png Represents SEP CAPS (Cloud App Protection Service), SEP backup and recovery solution for Office 365, G Suite, Salesforce and Dynamics 365.
System recovery.png Clicking Start Disaster Recovery allows you to start SEP sesam Server disaster recovery immediately. Only available if the backup task SESAM_BACKUP is configured and the sm_disaster interface is activated. See SEP sesam Server Disaster Recovery.
Notification.png Notification Center white flag is displayed when there are currently no open notifications. Clicking the flag displays the list of all resolved messages.
Notification with new messages.png Notification Center orange flag is displayed when there are new notifications issued by the SEP sesam Server that need to be checked.

Main selection icons

Icon Description
Clients 01.png Clicking Clients provides a list of all interconnected, in SEP sesam configured computers – SEP sesam Clients and their properties.
Data Store.png Clicking Data Stores shows all configured data stores and their properties, such as type, utilization, capacity.
Loader icon.png Clicking Loaders shows all configured loaders.
Drives icon.png Clicking Drives shows all configured drive groups and their drives.
Mediapool.png Clicking Media Pools shows all configured media pools and their media.
List of media.png Clicking Media shows a list of media, containing all media prepared for use with SEP sesam.
Tasks by clients icon.png Clicking Tasks by Clients shows a list of configured locations with their clients and configured tasks.
Task group icon.png Clicking Tasks by Groups shows a list of configured task groups and related tasks.
Backup plans 02.png Clicking Backup Plans provides an overview of all migration and replication tasks, as well as task groups and backup tasks.
Migration.png Clicking Migration Tasks shows all configured migration tasks.
Replication.png Clicking Replication Tasks shows all configured replication tasks.
Task as list.png Clicking Tasks as List shows a list of all configured backup tasks and their properties, such as task type, location and client, source and excludes.
Schedule.png Clicking Schedules shows an overview of all configured schedules.
Events.png Clicking Events shows a chronological list of all of your upcoming events: backup-, restore-, migration-, replication-, media-, command-, and NEWDAY events.
Schedules as list.png Clicking Events as List provides a list of all configured events, sorted by their type, such as command, replication, restore, etc.
Calendar sheet icon.png Clicking Calendar Sheet provides an overview of all scheduled, completed and expired events with their current status according to their start time.
Results.png Clicking All results provides a list of all jobs (backups, restores, migrations, etc.) and their details, such as event type, state, saveset, task, backup EOL, etc.
Backups.png Clicking Backups provides a list of all performed backups and their details, such as status, backup EOL, data size, throughput, etc.
Restores.png Clicking Restores provides a list of all performed restores and their details, such as status, data size, media pool, start/stop time, etc.
Migration results.png Clicking Migrations and Replications Clicking Migrations and Replications provides a list of all performed migrations and replications and their details, such as status, start/stop time, progress, etc.
Media actions.png Clicking Media Actions provides an overview of all media actions (e.g., initialization, readability check, purge, etc.) and their details, such as status, duration, drive number, etc.
Dashboard.png Clicking Dashboard allows you to check SEP sesam operations and their status online.
Last backup state icon.png Clicking Last Backup State shows previously executed jobs with their last backup status and the jobs which have never been backed up.
Processes.png Clicking Processes shows the status of SEP sesam processes on the SEP sesam Server.
Monitoring drives icon.png Clicking Monitoring: Drives shows a drive queue.
Notification.png Clicking Notification Center shows all notifications from the SEP sesam Server.
Protocol.png Clicking Logging shows different logs, e.g., state, day, error, or interface logs.

Status icons

The status-related icons show the job status, e.g., backup, restore, migration, etc.

Icon Description
State blocked.png The job has been blocked.
State cancelled.png The job has been cancelled.
State deleted.png The job has been deleted.
State deleted part.png The backup job is in the process of being deleted.
State error.png The job failed with an error.
State fatal.png The job failed with the fatal error.
State in queue.png The job is in queue.
State ok.png The job has been completed successfully.
State past due.png The job is past due.
State suppressed.png The event has been suppressed due to lower priority.
State timeout.png The job has not finished within the set time limit (exceeded its execution window).
State waiting.png The job waits for the execution.
State warning.png A warning occurs during the job execution.

Backup status icons

Icon Description
Task state active.png The backup task is active.
Task state canceled.png The backup task has been cancelled.
Task state error.png The backup failed with an error.
Task state in queue.png The backup task is in queue.
Task state ok.png The backup has been completed successfully.
Task state warning.png A warning occurs during the backup.
Un read flag.jpg EOL (Backup/Saveset) has expired. The saveset will be deleted with the next purge.
Read flag.jpg EOL (Backup/Saveset) has not yet expired. If the Backup EOL has not yet expired (blue circle) but the Saveset EOL has expired (gray circle), the saveset with the expired Saveset EOL will be deleted. In this example another backup saveset (migrated or replicated) still exists, therefore the backup is not lost.

Media status icons

Icon Description
State initialization.png The media initialization is in progress.
State purge.png The purge is in progress.
State unread.png The tape media has not been read during the readability check.

Client status icons

Icon Description
Client backup execution off.png The backup execution is disabled on the client.
Client not accessable.png The client is not accessible.
Check update access state.png The system checks if the update is available for the client.
Update client.png An update is available for the client (may be any of the following: a new SEP sesam package, a service pack or in case of a SEP sesam Server, a UI server update).
Server backup execution off.png The backup execution is disabled on the server.
Server not accessible.png The server is not accessible.
RDS backup execution off.png The backup execution is disabled on the RDS.
RDS not accessable.png The RDS is not accessible.

Data store status icons

The data store status icons consist of three parts:

  • The top bar shows the clone status of the S3 store.
  • The middle bar shows the sanity state of the Si3 store.
  • The bottom bar shows the data store status.
Icon Description
Data store state error.png The data store state has errors.
Data store state ok.png The data store state is OK (good).
Si3 states ok.png The data store and Si3 state are OK (good).
Si3 S3 state ok sanity state ok clone state error.png The Si3 and the sanity state are OK, but the S3 clone state shows an error.
Si3 state error sanitystate ok.png The Si3 store state shows an error, but its sanity state is OK.
Si3 state.png Shows the Si3 status under the Si3 State tab.

Context menu icons

The following general icons can be found in the context menus.

Icon Description
Auto refresh up.png Clicking Auto update will refresh (update) the displayed content automatically every 20 seconds.
Auto refresh down.png The displayed content will be refreshed again within 20 seconds.
Auto refresh off.png The Auto update option is disabled, thus the content is not automatically refreshed.
Copy.png Clicking the Copy icon enables you to copy previously selected items.
Delete.png Clicking the Delete icon allows you to delete previously selected items.
Download log.png Clicking the Download icon enables you to download the main log or trace log, respectively.
Export.png Clicking the Export icon enables you to export the status tables (e.g., backups) in the .xls or CSV format.
Help icon.png Clicking the Help icon opens the relevant wiki article with additional information.
Info icon.png Clicking the Information icon provides additional information about the selected option.
Location icon.png Represents the location; a group of clients.
Toolbar properties .png Clicking Properties opens the properties of the selected item, e.g., client, task, etc.
Refresh.png Clicking Refresh shows the updated view.
Send mail.png Clicking Send enables you to send the relevant log (e.g., main, day, error, etc.) by email.
Toolbar filter.png Represents a filter which enables you to easily find a specific content.
User.png Represents a user.
User group.png Represents a group of users.
Viewmode tablepanel.png If selected, the data is displayed in the table view mode.
Viewmode treepanel.png If selected, the data is displayed hierarchically in the tree view mode.

Client-related icons

Icon Description
Client icon.png Represents a client, i.e., workstation, PC, virtual machine or file server.
Server.png Represents a server.
RDS.png Represents an RDS.

Backup-related icons

Icon Description
Backup task icon.png Represents a backup task.
Backup plans 02.png Represents a backup event.

Restore-related icons

Icon Description
Restore task.png Represents a restore task.
Restore event.png Represents a restore event.
Immediate start restore icon.png Clicking Immediate Start: Restore enables you to select an already configured task and start the restore immediately.

Data store-related icons

Icon Description
Data store.png Represents a data store.
Data store media actions.png Shows the data store-related media actions under the Actions tab.
Datastore savesets.png Under the Savesets tab, the savesets, stored on the respective data store, are shown.
Cloud.png In case of Si3 deduplication store, configured for backing up to S3 cloud storage, the S3 Credentials tab is shown.
Clean up.png Clicking Clean Up allows you to manually remove orphaned savesets from the data stores.
Purge.png Clicking Purge allows you to start purge manually.

Loader-related icons

Icon Description
Loader icon.png Clicking the Loader icon enables you to configure a new loader, see Configuring a Loader.
Loader content icon.png Clicking the Loader Content shows a symbolic representation of the loader. It is constantly updated and always shows the current status.
Archive adjustment icon.png Clicking the Archive Adjustment icon enables you to set up archive adjustment.
Loader action icon.png Clicking the Loader Action icon enables you to select a specific loader action, e.g., import, export, unload, etc.

Drive-related icons

Icon Description
Drive icon.png Represents a drive.
Disk drive.png Represents a disk drive.
Drives icon.png Represents a drive group.
Drive action icon.png Clicking the Drive Action icon allows you to manage the specific drive and media in the drive.

Media pool-related icons

Icon Description
Mediapool.png Represents a tape media pool.
Disk media pool.png Represents a disk media pool.

Media-related icons

Icon Description
Media icon.png Represents tape media.
Media disk.png Represents disk media.
Media event.png Represents the media event.
Locked on.png The media is locked until its retention time has expired, see Managing EOL.
Locked off.png The media is not locked and can be used for backups.
Write protection on.png The tape media is write-protected.
Write protection off.png The tape media is not write-protected and can be used for backups.

Migration-related icons

Icon Description
Migration icon.png Represents a migration.
Migration task.png Represents a migration task.
Migration event icon.png Represents a migration event.
Migration result.png Represents the result of a migration task.

Repliction-related icons

Icon Description
Replication.png Represents a replication.
Replication task.png Represents a replication task.
Replication event.png Represents a replication event.
Replication result.png Represents the result of a replication task.

Schedule-related icons

Icon Description
Schedule.png Represents a schedule.
Schedule with events.png Represents a schedule with linked events.
Schedule without events.png Represents a schedule without linked events.
Events without schedule icon.png Represents the events which are not linked to a schedule.

Other event-related icons

Icon Description
Command event.png Represents a command event.
Newday event icon.png Represents a NEWDAY event.
Task group event.png Represents a task group-related event.

Client browser-related icons

As of SEP sesam v. 4.4.3 Beefalo V2, the following icons are displayed in the Client File View window when creating a backup task and browsing for the source. For details, see Tasks by Clients.

Icon Description
Cdrom.png Represents a CD-ROM.
Db.png Represents a database.
Directory link.png Represents a directory link.
Excel.png Represents a Microsoft Excel file.
Exe.png Represents an executable file (exec file).
Mailfolder.png Represents a mail folder.
Netdrive.png Represents a network drive.
Pagelink.png Represents a file/page link.
Path.png Represents a backup path.
Vcb image.png Represents a VMware VCB image used for image level backups.
Virtual app.png Represents a virtual app.
Vm cluster.png Represents a VM cluster, e.g., Hyper-V cluster, RHV cluster, etc.
Vm datacenter.png Represents a VM data center, e.g., vSphere data center.
Vm server.png Represents a VM server.
Vmdk.png Represents a VM disk (VMDK).


See also

SEP sesam GUISEP sesam GUI OverviewCustomizing GUI

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