Working with reports : Generating a Backup / Restore Report
 
Generating a Backup / Restore Report
The Backup / Restore report provides a detailed breakdown of each user's daily backup and restore activities during the specified Report period.
To generate a Backup / Restore report:
1. On the Reports menu, click Backup / Restore.
F1 Help: "Print Backup/Restore Summary & Backup Trends Report"
2. By default, summaries of daily user backup and restore sessions from the beginning of the month to the current day are displayed. Select the information you want to see in the report.
3. If the Multi-Tenant feature is enabled and configured, you can select the customer for which you want to generate the report. The report will only display data for the backup sets associated with the customer.
4. Click OK to see a preview of the report.
5. To print the report, click the printer icon. To export the report to a file, click the Save icon, and select the export format (PDF, Word, Excel, etc.) and destination.
The report displays the following information.
 
Table 3 Backup/Restore Report
Report Header
Account No.
The customer account number.
Account Name
The name of the customer account.
DS-Client No.
The number of the DS-Client covered in this report.
Customer Name
If the Multi-Tenant feature is enabled, this field is displayed and indicates the customer that was specified when the report was generated. The report displays only information about backup sets associated with this specified customer.
Backup / Restore report selection
DS-Client Report (DS-User displays the DS-Client computer name in parenthesis)
Online
Statistical
Deleted
Self contained
Local-Only
Local DS-VDR
Instant recovery
Shows the types of backup sets described in the report.
• Statistical backup sets allow you to estimate the potential storage those backup would occupy.
• Self contained and Local-Only backup sets perform backup and restore using only the local storage path (on the Setup menu, click Configuration, and then click Parameters).
• Deleted backup sets are calculated using data from the Activity Log.
• Local DS-VDR backup sets do not show any DS-System data storage or transmission amounts, since they do not apply.
Period
Indicates the period covered by the report.
User Name
Shows the user or <All>
Backup Set(s)
Shows the backup set, or <All>
Printing date
Day the report was printed.
Report Table
Columns
Description
User Name
Shows the user who performed the backup or restore, and the date of the operation.
Each day listed beneath a user name represents a day within the report period when either backup or restore activities occurred for that user.
Activities
Shows the total time taken for backup/restore activities and the total number of sessions for the listed user.
• Time (min): Total duration of all the sessions for the corresponding line of the report. (Note: CDP backups are counted when they are stopped, which means if a CDP backup that has been running for 5 days is stopped, it will report 7200 minutes on that day.)
• #: Total number of sessions (both backup and restore).
Backup Activities
Shows the number of files backed up that day, the volume of data backed up, and the number of connections made on that day to perform a backup.
• # of Files: Total number of files backed up.
• Amount (MB): Total amount of data backed up (Protected Size).
• #: Total number of backup sessions.
Restore Activities
Shows the number of files restored that day, the volume of data restored, and the number of connections made on that day to perform a restore.
• # of Files: Total number of files restored.
• Amount (MB): Total amount of data restored (Protected Size).
• #: Total number of restore sessions.
User Total
The last row for each user listed in the report contains that user’s totals for the report period.
Grand Total
The last row of the entire report contains the grand totals for all users listed in this report.