Most things you start in Backvera – a backup, restore, clone, download, staging build, or push to live – run in the background on Backvera’s servers, not in your browser. You do not have to sit and wait: start the job, carry on with other work, and use the Activity feed to see how it is going.
Where to find it
Open Activity from the Project section of the sidebar. It shows the background tasks for every site in your current project, and switches when you switch projects. The sidebar also shows a small count of tasks running right now, and the feed refreshes itself every few seconds – no need to reload.
What shows up here
Activity lists these background tasks across your project’s sites:
- Backups – scheduled, realtime, manual, and safety backups.
- Restores – full, files, and database restores, including dry runs.
- Clones – to another site, or to an SFTP/FTP target.
- Downloads – ZIP downloads of a backup, folder, or file.
- Staging – building, rebuilding, and removing a staging site.
- Push to live – shown as one task for the whole push.
- Exports – uploads to your own external storage destinations.
What each task shows
Each task shows the site it belongs to, what it is, and its state – running (with a progress bar, and for backups a rough time remaining) or finished (with a result: success, warning, failed, or skipped). A failed task shows the reason. Click a task to jump to its result – for example a restore summary, a staging site, or the snapshot a backup created.
Collect a finished download
When a ZIP download is ready, its Download link appears on its Activity row – so you can start a large download, keep working, and grab the file from Activity when it finishes. Prepared downloads stay available for 24 hours. See download a backup as a ZIP.
How long tasks stay listed
Activity shows everything that is running now, plus anything that finished in the last 24 hours. It is a live view of recent work, not a permanent log:
- For your durable list of backups (restore points), open a site’s History tab.
- For a long-term record of who changed what in the workspace, see the workspace audit log.
Still need help? Email our team at [email protected].