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Table of Contents  Introduction ................................................................................................ 5  Activity Planning ‐> Backup Window –> File Count ...................................... 6  Activity Planning ‐> Backup Window –> Job Count ...................................... 6  Activity Planning ‐> Backup Window –> Job Size ......................................... 8  Activity Planning –> Capacity Planning ‐> Historical Size ............................. 9  Activity Planning –> Capacity Planning ‐> Forecasted Size ......................... 10  Activity Planning –> Client Count ‐> Historical ........................................... 11  Activity Planning ‐> Client Count ‐> Rankings ............................................ 12  Activity Planning ‐> Client Count ‐> Distribution ........................................ 13  Activity Planning ‐> File Count ‐> Historical ............................................... 14  Activity Planning ‐> File Count ‐> Rankings ................................................ 15  Activity Planning ‐> File Count ‐> Distribution ........................................... 16  Activity Planning ‐> Forecast ‐> Job Size .................................................... 17  Activity Planning ‐> Forecast ‐> Job Count ................................................. 18  Activity Planning ‐> Forecast ‐> File Count ................................................. 19  Activity Planning ‐>Job Size‐> Historical .................................................... 20  Activity Planning ‐>Job Size‐> Rankings ..................................................... 21  Activity Planning ‐>Job Size‐> Distribution ................................................ 22  Activity Planning ‐> Job Count ‐> Historical ............................................... 23  Activity Planning ‐> Job Count ‐> Rankings ................................................ 24  Activity Planning ‐> Job Count ‐> Distribution ........................................... 25  Activity Planning ‐> Job Duration ‐> Historical ........................................... 26  Activity Planning ‐> Job Duration ‐> Rankings ............................................ 27  Activity Planning ‐> Job Duration ‐> Distribution ....................................... 27  Activity Planning ‐> Master Server Count .................................................. 29  Activity Planning ‐> Stored Backup Images ‐> Historical ............................ 30 

Activity Planning ‐> Stored Backup Images ‐> Rankings ............................. 31  Activity Planning ‐> Stored Backup Images ‐> Distribution ........................ 32  Activity Planning ‐> Stored Backup Images ‐> Duplicate Copies ................. 33  Activity Planning ‐> Active Job Count ........................................................ 34  Activity Planning ‐> Tabular Backup Report ............................................... 35  Tape Devices‐> Drive Throughput.............................................................. 36  Tape Devices‐> Drive Utilization ................................................................ 37  Tape Devices‐> Library Capacity Forecast .................................................. 38  Tape Devices‐> Library Summary .............................................................. 39  Risk Analysis ‐> Client Coverage ................................................................ 40  Risk Analysis ‐> Client Risk Analysis ........................................................... 41  Risk Analysis ‐> Recovery Point Objective ‐ RPO ........................................ 42  Status ‐> Job Status ‐> Historical................................................................ 43  Status ‐> Job Status ‐> Distribution ............................................................ 44  Status ‐> All Failed Backups ....................................................................... 45  Status ‐> Consecutive Failures ................................................................... 46  Status ‐> Daily Summary of Backup Activity .............................................. 47  Status ‐> Failed Job Count ......................................................................... 48  Status ‐> Partially Successful Job Count ..................................................... 49  Status ‐> Successful Job Count ................................................................... 50  Status ‐> Week At A Glance ....................................................................... 51  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate – All Attempts ............................................. 52  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate ‐ First Attempts ........................................... 53  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate – At Least 1 Success Per Client .................... 54  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate vs. Amount Backed Up ................................ 55  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate vs. Client Count ........................................... 56  Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate vs. Job Count ............................................... 57  Symantec Technical Network White Paper

Success Rate  ‐> Success Rate vs. File Count .............................................. 58  Deduplication ‐> File Factor ‐> Historical ................................................... 59  Deduplication ‐> File Factor ‐> Rankings .................................................... 60  Deduplication ‐> File Savings ‐> Historical ................................................. 61  Deduplication ‐> File Savings ‐> Rankings .................................................. 62  Deduplication ‐> Size Factor ‐> Historical................................................... 63  Deduplication ‐> Size Factor ‐> Rankings ................................................... 64  Deduplication ‐> Size Savings ‐> Historical ................................................. 65  Deduplication ‐> Size Savings ‐> Rankings ................................................. 66  Deduplication ‐> Protected Files vs. Backed Up Files ................................. 67  Deduplication ‐> Protected Size vs. Backed Up Size ................................... 68  Disk Pools ‐> NetBackup Disk Pool Capacity .............................................. 69  Disk Pools ‐> NetBackup Disk Pool Size vs. Percentage Full ....................... 70  Disk Pools ‐> NetBackup SAN Client Performance ..................................... 71  Disk Pools ‐> NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Map ......................................... 72  Media ‐> Tape Count ‐> By Volume Pool (Distribution) ............................. 73  Media ‐> Tape Count ‐> By Volume Pool (Trends) ..................................... 74  Media ‐> Tape Count ‐> By Tape Type ....................................................... 75  Media ‐> Tape Count ‐> By Retention Level (Distribution) ......................... 76  Media ‐> Tape Count ‐> By Retention Level (Trends) ................................. 77  Media ‐> Tape Used Capacity By Retention Level ...................................... 78  Media ‐> Tapes expiring Now .................................................................... 79  Media ‐> Tapes Expiring in Next 7 Days ..................................................... 80  Summary ................................................................................................... 81  Where to get more information ...................................................................... 81 

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Veritas Backup Reporter Description Guide

Introduction This paper was created to show what all the 1-click reports in Veritas Backup Reporter look like. To help in understanding what the reports mean or how to use them a simple explanation is also given for each report.

All the reports in this paper can be created in 1-click once you are in the “Reports” -> “Backups” tab in Veritas Backup Reporter. The reports are organized in to folders based on similar types. All the reports in this folder listing can be customized, saved, emailed and printed. They form the core of the reports for Veritas Backup Reporter. If they aren’t enough there is a “Custom” folder for creating reports from scratch or writing SQL to generate any report imaginable.

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Activity Planning -> Backup Window –> File Count

This report shows the number of files that were backed up for each hour of the day. The height of each bar on the graph is the total number of files backed up for that hour across the entire date range selected. A user defined backup window is drawn in yellow to compare with what hours the files should have been backed up in. Bars outside of the yellow window represent activity that occurred outside of the backup window. The report could also be used to see what hours may have capacity to add more backups while still remaining in the backup window.

Activity Planning -> Backup Window –> Job Count

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This report shows the total number backup jobs in the last two weeks shown by the hour of the day in which each job ends. It also renders a configurable backup window to help quickly identify if a lot of jobs are ending in or outside of what your backup window is or should be. The report can help you see if there are any hours within the backup window that are underutilized and whether any load balancing is appropriate.

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Activity Planning -> Backup Window –> Job Size

This report shows the total gigabytes backed up in the last two weeks shown by the hour of the day in which each job ends. It also renders a configurable backup window to help quickly identify if a lot of jobs are ending in or outside of what your backup window is or should be. The report can help you see if there are any hours within the backup window that are underutilized and whether any load balancing is appropriate.

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Activity Planning –> Capacity Planning -> Historical Size

This report shows the historical supply vs. demand. Supply (yellow line) is defined as all available free space on all the backup media in the backup application. For disk this is an exact calculation of remaining free capacity. For tape this number is calculated by taking the average size of all full media of the same tape type. That average is then used for the predicted size of all other tapes that are not full of the same type. This is necessary since tapes do not have an exact capacity and are written to until the end of tape mark. On the demand side (blue line) this is a simple calculation of all backup jobs for the time period. The idea for this report is that the difference between the blue line and yellow line is extra capacity that was not needed. In an ideal environment these lines would match with the blue line being slightly under the yellow line showing that all the space for backups is being used. This report can sometimes be referred to as the “just in time inventory” report since the concept was derived from the business theory by the same name. The default is to show the total environment but for operational use it would need to be filtered down to individual storage locations since some could be closer to 100% capacity than others. This can be easily done by clicking on “edit” at the top of the report.

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Activity Planning –> Capacity Planning -> Forecasted Size

Similar to the previous report this shows the supply vs. demand historically but now also adds a forecast line for both supply and demand that can show when in the future they may meet. The point that these two lines intersect would be the date that new capacity (more disk or more backup tapes) needs to be added. In the above example the supply is by far outgrowing the demand, which would suggest that more capacity doesn’t need to be purchased. The default first view of this report shows the entire backup environment but for actual use it should be filtered to a specific tape library or disk pool since some libraries or pools may be closer to full capacity than others.

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Activity Planning –> Client Count -> Historical

This report shows the total number of unique clients backed up per day for the last two weeks broken down by each master server. It can help you highlight potential problems by showing any variations in the number of clients that you think should be backed up and how many are in fact getting backed up.

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Activity Planning -> Client Count -> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 largest environments by listing the number of unique clients that got backed up per each media server in your environment for the past two weeks.

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Activity Planning -> Client Count -> Distribution

This report gives you a breakdown by each master server of the number of unique clients that got backed up in the last two weeks.

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Activity Planning -> File Count -> Historical

This report shows you the total number of files that got backed up for each day in the last two weeks for each of your master servers. Unexpected variations in this report between your dayto-day incremental or between full backup cycles could indicate problems.

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Activity Planning -> File Count -> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 largest backup clients by ranking them on the total number of files that were backed up for them for the past two weeks.

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Activity Planning -> File Count -> Distribution

This report gives you a breakdown by each master server of the total number of files that got backed up in the last two weeks.

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Activity Planning -> Forecast -> Job Size

This report shows you the total gigabytes backed up for each week in the past two months. A linear regression forecast is also performed to show you how much you can expect to be backing up for the next three weeks based on the current data.

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Activity Planning -> Forecast -> Job Count

This report shows you the total number of backup jobs for each day in the past two weeks. A linear regression forecast is also performed to show you how many backups you can expect to be doing for the next three days based on the current data.

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Activity Planning -> Forecast -> File Count

This report shows you the total number of files that were backed up for each day in the past two weeks. A linear regression forecast is also performed to show you how many files you can expect to backup for the next three days based on the current data.

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Activity Planning ->Job Size-> Historical

This report shows you the total gigabytes backed up for each day in the last two weeks. Unexpected variations in this report between your day-to-day incremental or between full backup cycles could indicate problems.

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Activity Planning ->Job Size-> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 largest backup clients by ranking them on the total number of gigabytes backed up for that client in the past two weeks. The report can give you an idea of your top consumers and whether those consumers are what you expected.

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Activity Planning ->Job Size-> Distribution

This report gives you a breakdown by each media server of the total gigabytes they’ve backed up over the past two weeks. It will show you a very clear distribution of the amount of data going to all your media servers and whether any type of load balancing might be beneficial.

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Activity Planning -> Job Count -> Historical

This report shows you the total number of backed jobs performed for each day in the last two weeks. Unexpected variations in this report between your day-to-day incremental or between full backup cycles could indicate problems.

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Activity Planning -> Job Count -> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 largest environments by ranking the total number of jobs performed by each media server for the past two weeks.

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Activity Planning -> Job Count -> Distribution

This report gives you a breakdown of the number of jobs performed by each media server in your environment. It will clearly highlight how busy each of your media servers are and if any type of load balancing between your media servers could spread the workload.

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Activity Planning -> Job Duration -> Historical

This report shows the total amount of time spent while doing backups each day for the past two weeks. (This report is inaccurate)

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Activity Planning -> Job Duration -> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 highest clients ranked by the total amount of time they’ve taken to be backed up for the past two weeks. (This report is inaccurate)

Activity Planning -> Job Duration -> Distribution

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This report gives you a breakdown of the total amount of time each media server in your environment takes to backup their hosts. (This report is inaccurate)

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Activity Planning -> Master Server Count

This report shows you the total number of master servers who’ve performed backups for each day in the past two weeks. Variations in this chart could indicate problems with the backup servers.

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Activity Planning -> Stored Backup Images -> Historical

This report shows you the total amount of data in gigabytes that was backed up but has not expired yet for each of the days in the past two weeks. This report will only show results for NetBackup.

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Activity Planning -> Stored Backup Images -> Rankings

This report shows you the top 10 largest clients ranked by the amount of data they’ve backed up and which has not expired yet for the past two weeks. This report will only show results for NetBackup.

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Activity Planning -> Stored Backup Images -> Distribution

This report gives you a breakdown of the backup clients ranked by the amount of data they’ve backed up and which have not expired yet for the past two weeks. This report will only show results for NetBackup.

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Activity Planning -> Stored Backup Images -> Duplicate Copies

The axis on the left is for the height of the blue bars that tells the number of duplicate backup copies that exist overall. The yellow line is the axis on the right and it is showing the percentage of backup images that are copies. This is a particularly useful report for situations where you wish to make certain there is always more than 1 backup copy. If 2 copies of a backup exist the blue bar would be a height of 1 (since there is 1 extra copy) and the yellow line would show .5 for 50% since half of the backup images are copies. The same situation for 3 copies would be a blue bar height of 2 and a yellow line percentage of .66 or 66%. In operational use you can filter this report down to specific policies or clients that you want to ensure always have a 50% or greater yellow line so that more than 1 backup copy exists.

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Activity Planning -> Active Job Count

This report simply shows the total number of active jobs that occurred each day for the last 2 weeks. Active jobs are jobs that are in queue or running at time of Backup Reporter data collection, which defaults to every 15 minutes. A large spike in this report would indicate larger backup activity but not necessarily larger backup completion, which would be shown in the complete job reports instead.

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Activity Planning -> Tabular Backup Report

This report shows you a detailed listing of all the backup activity performed for the past two weeks. You can edit the report to show or hide the columns you are interested in. You can also filter the report to show activity for a limited sample set, such as one or more policies or clients.

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Tape Devices-> Drive Throughput

This report shows the speed (KB/Sec) at which data backups are flowing through tape drives. The report utilizes the “heat map” concept and depicts ranges of speeds (slow to fast) through configurable shades of green. Reports are based on either Hour-Of-Day or Day-of-Week. Advanced averaging logic is used to determine the throughput values for each cell in the report. The averaging is done at an image fragment level ensuring granularity and precision in calculations. The reports can be aggregated and filtered at the Tape Library, Media Server, Drive Type, Logical Drive and Physical Drive levels. The sort options allows for intuitive presentation of voluminous data. These reports are important sources of information for performance analysis and capacity planning activities.

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Tape Devices-> Drive Utilization

This report shows the utilization (0 – 100%) of tape drives. The report utilizes the “heat map” concept and depicts ranges of utilization (low to high) through configurable shades of blue. Reports are based on either Hour-Of-Day or Day-of-Week. Advanced logic is used to determine the utilization values for each cell in the report. Utilization is calculated off a per minute basis knowing which job is using the ensuring precision in calculations versus traditional methods of periodic polling of the devices. The reports can be aggregated and filtered at the Tape Library, Media Server, Drive Type, Logical Drive and Physical Drive levels. The sort options allows for intuitive presentation of voluminous data. These reports are important sources of information for performance analysis and capacity planning activities.

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Tape Devices-> Library Capacity Forecast

This report provides a capacity forecast of Tape Libraries. A libraries’ capacity is calculated by multiplying Slot Count by Slot Capacity. Slot capacity is simply the capacity of the tape in the slot. As no standard exists for measuring library capacity, the report enables several methods by which an individual tapes capacity is determined. These consist of using the maximum, minimum and average size of full tapes to determine tape capacity. Additionally, user-defined capacity for tape types is available in the report parameter selection UI. The report extrapolates the trend line out through the forecast period using classic linear regression and also plots the libraries capacity. At the date in which the library capacity line intersects the capacity forecast line is when the libraries capacity is reached.

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Tape Devices-> Library Summary

This report provides a current point in time inventory of library capacity. The reports lists the libraries name, Volume DB Server, used/available/total slot count and used/available/total capacity. There are two calculated columns showing the % utilization of slots and library capacity. The report provides a rich selection of filters enabling users with a diverse tape library environment to zoom in on any segment of their tape library population.

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Risk Analysis -> Client Coverage

The purpose of this report is to show what hosts are not being backed up because the backup application is not even aware of them. The report does this by comparing what Veritas Backup Reporter hosts are known to be backed up with an external list that is fed in via .csv or .tsv. The list can come from a content management database (CMDB), DNS listings or any other authoritative source of what hosts should be being backed up. The report works across all backup applications and will show you what backup application and policy executed the backup and the time of the last full or incremental backup.

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Risk Analysis -> Client Risk Analysis

This report identifies backup clients that have gone without a successful backup for a specified period of time and hence are at risk from a restore/recoverability standpoint. The “specified period of time” is user-definable along with several other variables for filtering purposes. The report is interpreted as all client/policy combinations that have gone x hours, days, weeks or months without a successful backup. The level of granularity is at a client/policy level and exposes clients that have multiple backup policies where one of them may repeatedly be failing. The primary use cases is to show that all clients have been backed up as of the last x hours and all clients have a full backup not more than x days ago. The report also has a “IsActive” filter to include only those that are currently active as well as the capability to count partial successes as success and vice versa.

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Risk Analysis -> Recovery Point Objective - RPO

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) have emerged as generally accepted metrics for client recoverability. This report simply ranks all clients by the amount of time elapsed since their last successful backup. In contrast to the Client Risk Analysis report, the level of granularity is the client level and thus clients with multiple backup policies will be represented by the policy with most recent success. This it is recommended that this report not be used for multi-policy clients. The client “IsActive” filter allows for those hosts that are not actively being backed up to be omitted. The elapsed time in the report is always between now and the last successful backup. The report is effective in its graphical rankings format placing the clients with longest elapsed time at the top.

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Status -> Job Status -> Historical

A job status report in simple red (failure), yellow (partial success) and green (success) displayed in stacked bar format grouped by hour, day, week, month or year across any timeframe. The report is simply a count of jobs for each of the 3 outcomes. The simplicity of the presentation helps easily identify both positive and negative trends as well as one-off deviations. For NetBackup environments, the report can also be generated where attempts rather than jobs are counted. In NetBackup, jobs can be configured for x many attempts before exiting with a status. The report can be filtered across a selection that includes Views, Backup and Media Servers, Backup Level, Policies, Schedules, Transport Types, Operating Systems and Business Classifications.

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Status -> Job Status -> Distribution

A job status report in simple red (failure), yellow (partial success) and green (success) displayed in pie chart format. The report is simply a count of jobs for each of the 3 outcomes. The main use cases of the report are typically short-term verification (i.e. last 24 – 48 hours) of backup job status and long term (i.e. 1+ months) management level reporting requiring highlevel status summaries. The report can be filtered across a selection that includes Views, Backup and Media Servers, Backup Level, Policies, Schedules, Transport Types, Operating Systems and Business Classifications.

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Status -> All Failed Backups

This report is one of three using the advanced success/failure calculation logic around the notion of first, all and last job. They require schedule and window parameters enabling a precise definition of timeframes. Additionally, these reports have aggregation levels of job and client. The first job success/failure is the first job for a client/policy/schedule combination in its defined backup window and last job is the opposite. As failed jobs are rerun one or more times, the “last job” represents the last of the reruns within the window. This report produces the details of the failed jobs based on which one of the three (first / all / last) methods is chosen. The main use case for this report is based on last job where failure notification to users is based around last job and failures leading up to the last one is ignored.

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Status -> Consecutive Failures

This report is the second of three using the advanced success/failure calculation logic around the notion of first, all and last job. The main use case is the calculation of 2 or more consecutive failures based around Last Job Success/Failure. It applies intricate logic to pick off the last failed job and in turn to determine that the last job failures are indeed consecutive. This report can be best verified through the Client Risk Analysis report where if 3 consecutive failures with 24 hour windows were chosen, the client/policy combo should also appear on the risk report as not having a successful backup in 72 or more hours.

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Status -> Daily Summary of Backup Activity

This report is the third of three using the advanced success/failure calculation logic around the notion of first, all and last job. It collects all information around both successes and failures and presents the results grouped by (day or month) timeframe for either client or job success rate. Client success rate is a count of successful clients where all policies defined to the client must be successful in order to declare the client successful. Thus a client is either 0% or 100% and no intermediate state. Job success rate is derived from all jobs and separated out by first, all and last and a specific client can have a job success rate that can range between 0% and 100%. End user and customer typically get Last Job Success for job and client whereas backup architects and administrators examine all three. These reports work well with views and can be reported on at any level with robust filtering capabilities.

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Status -> Failed Job Count

This report simply aggregates failed jobs and shows these across a timeline. In reality, this report is the same as “all jobs” as no distinction on whether the failed job was first or last one is made. It provides a quick and simple visualization of whether a problematic trend exists. It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The primary use case of the report is verification of whether actions taken to correct persistent failures are producing results and reversing trends.

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Status -> Partially Successful Job Count

This report simply aggregates partially successful jobs and shows these across a timeline. It provides a quick and simple visualization of job volume trends that skip files that are open during the backup job. It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The primary use case of the report is verification of whether actions taken to correct the open file situation by moving the scheduling of the client/policies are producing results and reversing trends.

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Status -> Successful Job Count

This report simply aggregates successful jobs and shows these across a timeline. It provides a quick and simple visualization of job volume trends. It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The primary use case of the report is verification of trends and the days that are exception to the norm. The report is highly effective for presenting long-term historical data on one of the most fundamental metrics of managing a backup operation.

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Status -> Week At A Glance

This report summarizes activity for a week by symbolically displaying the result of each job for each client under the day of the week. The symbols are the blue (Success) and yellow (Partial Success) men and failures denoted by a red “X”. A drill-down capability to the job level details (i.e Job ID, Start/End Time, Size etc…) is provided. It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The report is highly effective as it provides a simple and intuitive visualization of job status for the most current data and how that compares to the previous six days.

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Success Rate -> Success Rate – All Attempts

This report shows success rate as it’s aggregated at the attempt (aka “try”) level. Jobs can be configured for x many attempts before exiting with a status. If for example the attempt setting is two and success is attained on the second attempt, this would translate into a 50% attempt rate and 100% job success rate. This metric is only supported for backup applications in which attempt level data is available. A target line is also supported providing for an effective visual presentation on when the target is exceeded. It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. Main use case is long-term historical data on one of the key performance indicators.

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Success Rate -> Success Rate - First Attempts

This report shows success rate as it’s aggregated at the attempt (aka “try”) level. Specifically, it zooms in on the measurement of the first attempt for each job. Jobs can be configured for x many attempts before exiting with a status. If for example the attempt setting is two and success is attained on the second attempt, this would translate into a 50% All Attempt rate and 0% First Attempt rate and 100% job success rate. This metric is only supported for backup applications in which attempt level data is available. A target line is also supported providing for an effective visual presentation on when the target is exceeded. Filtering is available on all components and attributes. Main use case is utilizing this and the All Attempts report together to see how often success is attained on the first attempt as opposed to second, third etc.. attempts.

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Success Rate -> Success Rate – At Least 1 Success Per Client

This last of the single line success rate reports will give the highest number since it is showing at least one success per client stream. Meaning as long as 1 job is successful despite any number of retries it will be a 100% success. This is typically a report to show overall exposure to someone outside the backup team. A 100% on this report indicates that everything was backed up even though it may have taken a number of retries.

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Success Rate -> Success Rate vs. Amount Backed Up

This report shows whether there is a correlation between two variables. Specifically, how is success rate influenced by the amount of data backed up. The report utilizes a dual y-axis chart to aggregate the variables against a timeline. It can be reported against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The main use case examines whether total backup size is a scale-inhibiting factor. After a certain level of data backed up is reached, does success rate begin to drop off? The report is best when examined in the context of Master and Media Servers.

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Success Rate -> Success Rate vs. Client Count

This report shows whether there is a correlation between two variables. Specifically, how is success rate influenced by the number of clients being backed up. The report utilizes a dual yaxis chart to aggregate the variables against a timeline. It can be reported against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The main use case examines whether the number of clients is a scale-inhibiting factor. Is it time to add additional master and media servers after a certain number of clients? Does the success rate trend decline as new clients are added?

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Success Rate -> Success Rate vs. Job Count

This report shows whether there is a correlation between two variables. Specifically, how is success rate influenced by the number of jobs run. The report utilizes a dual y-axis chart to aggregate the variables against a timeline. It can be reported against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The main use case examines whether running more jobs on the same master/media servers is a scale-inhibiting factor. Is it time to add additional master and media servers after a certain number of clients? Does the success rate trend decline as more jobs are run? Does job count have the same impact when it is driven by more clients vs. just more jobs for the same number of clients?

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Veritas Backup Reporter Description Guide

Success Rate -> Success Rate vs. File Count

This report shows whether there is a correlation between two variables. Specifically, how is success rate influenced by the number of files being backed up. The report utilizes a dual yaxis chart to aggregate the variables against a timeline. It can be reported against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The main use case examines whether the increase in files that need to be backed up at some level begins to negatively impact success rate. Do more files have a greater impact on success rate if the job and client counts were to remain the same? In summary, the success rate correlation reports look to provide perspective on factors that impact performance.

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Deduplication -> File Factor -> Historical

Even though deduplication works at a block or sub-file level this report will show the number of files that have not changed and as a result don’t need to be backed up divided by the number of files being protected overall. This calculated number is essentially the deduplication rate at a file level. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Veritas Backup Reporter Description Guide

Deduplication -> File Factor -> Rankings

This deduplication report ranks the top hosts in terms of which ones have the best file deduplication rate. These hosts have the least amount of change and therefore are getting the best benefit from deduplication. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> File Savings -> Historical

This report is similar to the file factor report but instead shows just the total number of files that don’t need to be backed up because of deduplication. There is no calculation or ratio in this number, it is just simply the number of files that have not changed since the last backup and therefore don’t need to be backed up. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> File Savings -> Rankings

Similar to the previous report this one shows the number of files that have not changed within the time frame and therefore don’t have to be backed up due to deduplication. The report groups the number of files saved per host being backed up to show the top 5 hosts in terms of file savings. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Size Factor -> Historical

This report is usually the most talked about when it comes to deduplication since it shows what the deduplication ratio is for each day over the last two weeks (the time frame is modifiable). The deduplication ratio is calculated by taking the total number of bytes that would normally be backed up and dividing it by the number of bytes that have changed and actually were backed up. So if 100TB exists on all the backups taking place but only 10TB were changed and therefore transferred you would have a rate of 10. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Size Factor -> Rankings

This deduplication report ranks the top hosts in terms of which ones have the best deduplication ratio in bytes. These hosts have the least amount of change and therefore are getting the best benefit from deduplication. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Size Savings -> Historical

This report is similar to the file factor report but instead shows just the total number of bytes that don’t need to be backed up because of deduplication. There is no calculation or ratio in this number, it is just simply the number of bytes (MB, GB, TB etc) that have not changed since the last backup and therefore don’t need to be backed up. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Size Savings -> Rankings

Similar to the previous report this one shows the number of bytes that have not changed within the time frame and therefore don’t have to be backed up due to deduplication. The report groups the total number of bytes saved per host being backed up in order to show the top 5 hosts in terms of deduplication savings. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Protected Files vs. Backed Up Files

The blue bars in this report show the number of files being protected and the yellow line is the number of files that actually needed to be transferred since they have not changed. The difference between these bars and lines are the savings as shown in the “File Savings” report folder and the blue bar when divided by the yellow line is the “File Factor” reports in the same folder. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Deduplication -> Protected Size vs. Backed Up Size

Similar to the previous report this shows the numbers in bytes instead of files. So for block level deduplication the blue bars represent the total number of bytes that exist on all the backups as if they were normal full backups and the yellow line represents the number of bytes that have changed and therefore needed to be transferred. The “Size Savings” and “Size Factor” report folders will show the difference between the bars and lines or the deduplication ratio respectively. This report is for NetBackup PureDisk Remote Office Edition only.

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Veritas Backup Reporter Description Guide

Disk Pools -> NetBackup Disk Pool Capacity

This report is specific to NetBackup 6.5 and above which introduced “Disk Pools” as a type of Storage Unit. The basic version of this report shows the total amount of space occupied by backups across all NetBackup 6.5 Disk Pools which would include OpenStorage Devices, PureDisk deduplication option storage, SharedDisk or even AdvancedDisk pools. Along with usage the average of the high and low water mark is taken for each disk pool and drawn on the graph. Since this is an average it should not be used for planning purposes but rather estimation. In actual usage this report should be filtered on a specific Disk Pool to show the exact high and low water mark. Finally the forecast is shown so that it can be determined when capacity needs to be added or backups expired in order to maintain operations.

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Disk Pools -> NetBackup Disk Pool Size vs. Percentage Full

This report is specific to NetBackup 6.5 and above which has new devices and storage units called “Disk Pools”. A Disk Pool may be an OpenStorage device, a PureDisk Deduplication system, SharedDisk, or a group of local/network disk volumes pooled together. The bars represent the total number of available bytes across all disk pools with the colors representing the total amount of space per disk pool. The lines represent the percentage full each disk pool is. So this report can help identify how much disk space is being used for backups, which pools are the largest, which ones are nearing capacity and how the backup environment is load balancing across disk storage.

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Disk Pools -> NetBackup SAN Client Performance

This report is specific to NetBackup 6.5 and above which features fibre channel connected clients called “SAN Clients”. The blue and yellow bars are stacked together to show the total number of jobs per day – the blue bars represent jobs that ran over the LAN and the yellow is jobs ran over the SAN. The purple and yellow lines show the total job throughput for all those jobs that ran that day – the purple representing total job throughput via LAN and the yellow representing total job throughput via SAN. This report will help identify what ratio of LAN to SAN traffic for back ups are being run and what performance benefit is being gained by doing so.

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Disk Pools -> NetBackup Storage Lifecycle Map

A tabular listing that shows a row for each unique host, data classification name and policy as well as the time since the last successful backup. The more appropriate title for this report may be “Detailed Recovery Point Objective (RPO) by Data Classification”. Since this report shows the amount of time since the last successful backup for those 3 combinations it can easily be sorted by host, policy or data classification to see that the recovery objective is being obtained for those properties.

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Media -> Tape Count -> By Volume Pool (Distribution)

This report shows the percentage of the media in each volume pool. You can also get the total count (rather than the percentage) of media by moving the mouse over the volume pool in the pie chart or the legend. Alternatively you could click on Show Table option to obtain the same information in the tabular format.

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Media -> Tape Count -> By Volume Pool (Trends)

This report shows total number of media per volume pool. The bar chart makes it easy to spot the pools that have a large number of media.

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Media -> Tape Count -> By Tape Type

This report shows the percentage distribution of the media type holding the image data. If you move the mouse over to the tape type it shows the total number of media of that type. Alternatively you can click the show table menu to get total count of all the media types in a tabular format.

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Media -> Tape Count -> By Retention Level (Distribution)

This report is a pie chart that shows the percent of backup media at each retention level. This can be used to easily identify if a large quantity of the backup media is committed for a long time suggesting a longer lifecycle due to possible regulatory compliance or highly important data. “Infinite” means that backup media will never be used again for backups unless it is manually expired. If the actual value or count is desired it can be seen by placing the mouse over any of the colored sections in the pie chart or legend.

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Media -> Tape Count -> By Retention Level (Trends)

This report is similar to the previous but directly displays the number of media at each retention level. Again, any media with “Infinite” retention will never be used for backup again. Media with other retention levels will expire after the amount of time listed on the bottom of the graph at which time they would be overwritten with new backups (and a new retention level set depending on those backup’s new retention level).

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Media -> Tape Used Capacity By Retention Level

This third report on media retention looks at the media at a slightly higher level and shows the amount of storage (default is GB but can be changed) that exist at each retention level regardless of how many piece of media may exist to hold it all. The report can show just how much data is locked up for certain amounts of time as listed on the bottom x-axis.

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Media -> Tapes expiring Now

This report lists the media that are about to expire. The Volume Pool Name , Media ID and Media Barcode listed make it easy to locate the media. The default time frame when the report is clicked will show what is expiring in the next 24 hours but that time frame can be changed to show media expiring in the next week, month or any future time window desirable.

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Media -> Tapes Expiring in Next 7 Days

Similar to the previous report but at a higher level this will show the number of media that expire at each day in the upcoming 7 days. This time frame can be changed to show more in to the future. The report is helpful in determining if a large quantity of media may be becoming free in the future which could justify delaying the purchase of more media.

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Summary Overall we hope that this paper made the out of box reports easier to understand. Keep in mind that you can take any of the out of box reports and edit them to have different time frames, filter them down to specific areas or even segment them on an appropriate property. The out of box reports are a good start but every environment is unique so make sure to edit them as appropriate so they are the best reports for your environment.

Where to get more information If you still are having problems understanding any of the out of box reports we encourage you to contact Symantec support 24 hours a day. We would be glad to help you understand anything that is not clear.

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