Failback Job Wizard for Amazon EC2: Options

On the Options page of the wizard, specify options for the Amazon EC2 failback job as described in the sections below:

Job Options

  • In the Job name box, enter a string of 50 or fewer characters to specify the name of your failback job.

  • Optionally, enable App-aware mode. Choose among the following options:

    • Enabled (proceed on error): With this option selected, NAKIVO Backup & Replication proceeds even if an application quiescing error is encountered.
    • Enabled (fail on error): With this option selected, NAKIVO Backup & Replication automatically fails the job if an application quiescing error is encountered.

    • Disabled: Selecting this option disables the app-aware mode.

  • Select Power off replica instances to power off the replica workloads during the failback.

Pre and Post Actions

If needed, enable pre- and post-actions:

  1. Send job run reports to: When selected, a job report is sent to specified recipients each time the failback job is completed. This overrides the default setting specified in the NAKIVO Backup & Replication settings.

  2. Run local pre job script: When selected, a dialog box opens in which you can set up the following options of the pre-job script to be run:

    • Script path: A local path to the script on the machine where the Director is installed. A script interpreter should be specified as well.

    • Job behavior: The following options are available:

      • Wait for the script to finish: This is the default option.

      • Do not wait for the script to finish.

    • Error handling: The following options are available:

      • Continue the job on script failure: This is the default option.

      • Fail the job on script failure.

  3. Run local post job script: When selected, a dialog box opens in which you can specify options of the post-job script to be run on the machine where the product is installed. Proceed with the options as described for  Run local pre job script.

Note
If you click Finish & Run, you will have to define the scope of your job.  Refer to Running Jobs on Demand for details.