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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:

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:

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:

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:

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 Clients Reports

This report category shows backup client information including database and client agent data sizes.

The following reports are available:

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:

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:

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:

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:

My Reports

This report category shows user-created reports that are saved in the following directory:

CA\ARCserve Backup\Templates\Reports