Report Categories
The report categories that display in Report Manager originate from an external XML schema file (categories.xml) in the Arcserve Backup home directory. You can change the display order of the report categories by editing the categories.xml file.
The following table describes the categories, and types available for standard and custom reports.
Daily Status Reports
This report category provides the status of all jobs executed within the last 24 hours, including reports that display all clients which failed backup and media written in the last 24 hours.
The following reports are available:
- Daily Job Status Report (custom)
- Daily Backup Status Report (custom)
- Daily Failed Backups Report (custom)
- Recently Written Media Report (custom)
- Note: The Daily Backup Status Report contains a field called Compression Ratio. The compression ratio shows the amount of data actually written to disk after deduplication. The field is available only for sessions backed up to deduplication device groups.
Job Reports
This report category shows the status information for report jobs executed on a weekly basis. It provides reports showing all failed backups and a preflight check report that displays the status of report jobs scheduled to run at a future date.
The following reports are available:
- Job Report (standard)
- Enterprise Job Status Report (standard)
- 7 Days Job Status Report (custom)
- 7 Days Backup Status Report (custom)
- Failed Backups Report (custom)
- Preflight Check Report (standard)
Media Reports
This report category shows detailed media information about sessions backed up, including a list of media errors generated. Forecasted media schedules for GFS jobs are also available.
The following reports are available:
- Backup Media Error Report (standard)
- Session Detail Report (standard)
- Session Report (standard)
- Arcserve Backup for Laptops and Desktops Session Details Report (standard)
- GFS Media Prediction Report (standard)
- Media Usage Comparison Report (custom)
- Media Utilization Report (custom)
- Media Required for Data Recovery Report (custom)
- 7 Days Media Usage History Report (custom)
- Scratch Set Media in Device Report (standard)
- Note: The Media Utilization, Session Detail and Session Reports now contain a field called Compression Ratio for Deduplication. This ratio shows the amount of data actually written to disk after deduplication. The field is only available for sessions backed up to deduplication device groups. This field is present through the Report Manager and also through Report Writer, File, Open, Arcserve Backup Home Directory, Templates, Reports.
Media Pool Reports
This report category shows detailed media pool related information including the status of media in scratch sets and GFS rotation profiles.
The following reports are available:
- Media Pool Report (standard)
- Media Pool Location Report (standard)
- GFS Rotation Profile Report (standard)
- Detailed Media Pool Report (custom)
- Media in Scratch Sets Report (custom)
Device Reports
This report category shows information about backup devices used with Arcserve Backup including the number of errors incurred during a backup on a device.
The following report is available:
- Backup Device Report (standard)
Backup Clients Reports
This report category shows backup client information including database and client agent data sizes.
The following reports are available:
- Backup Client Data Size Report (custom)
- Backup Clients and Job Associations Report (custom)
- Detailed Media Usage by Backup Clients Report (custom)
- Note: The Backup Client Data Size Report now contains a field called Compression Ratio. This ratio shows the amount of data actually written to disk after deduplication. The field is only available for sessions backed up to deduplication device groups. This field is present through the Report Manager and also through Report Writer, File, Open, Arcserve Backup Home Directory, Templates, Reports.
Resource Usage History Reports
This report category shows forecasted usage information based on historical data.
The following reports are available:
- 7 Days Media Usage History Report (custom)
- Media Utilization Report (custom)
- Media Usage Comparison Report (custom)
- Backup Window and Throughput Comparison Report (custom)
Staging Reports
This report category provides you with information that you can use to analyze and manage data that was backed up to a file system device using staging.
With Staging Reports you can view status information about migration sessions, SnapLock sessions, and sessions that did not purge from staging devices. The Summary report lets you view information about a specific job or a group of jobs based upon a user-specified range of dates.
The following reports are available:
- Staging Migration Report
- Staging Purge Failed Report
- Staging SnapLock Report
- Staging Summary Report
Audit Log Reports
This report category adds audit fields to existing activity log information such as service starts and stops, or password changes. You can now identify who executed an action, from what machine, and using what application.
The following report is available:
- Audit Log Report
Statistics Reports
This report category provides an overview of the current data protection status. The reports include information about the backup and restore status. However, the output is based on the filter combinations you specify.
The following reports are available:
- Backup Attempt Success Rate: Summary Report (advanced)
- Backup Attempt Success Rate: Individual Client Report (advanced)
- Restore Attempt Success Rate Report (advanced)
- Drive Throughput Report (advanced)
- Backup Error Report (advanced)
- Clients With Most Failed Backup Attempt (advanced)
- Most Consecutive Backup Failures Report (advanced)
- Clients With Most Partial Backups Report (advanced)
- Full Backup Duration (advanced)
- Last Backup Status Report (advanced)
- Vaulting Report (advanced)
My Reports
This report category shows user-created reports that are saved in the following directory:
CA\ARCserve Backup\Templates\Reports