About the Reports utility
Use the Reports utility in the NetBackup Administration Console to generate reports to verify, manage, and troubleshoot NetBackup operations. NetBackup reports display information according to job status, client backups, and media contents. Use the Troubleshooter to analyze the cause of the errors that appear in a NetBackup report.
In the Reports window, in the right pane, manage the report data or select a report to run.
Table: Reports utility
Number | Description |
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1 | The name of the currently selected master server. |
2 | The user toolbar is specific to the Reports utility. See About the NetBackup Administration Console toolbar. |
3 | Report descriptions. |
4 | Right-click in the right pane to view the shortcut menu. |
NetBackup offers many different reports to view information about job activity and media.
Table: NetBackup Reports
Report name | Description |
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Status of Backups | The Status of Backups report shows status and error information about the jobs that completed within the specified time period. If an error occurred, a short explanation of the error is included in the report. |
Client Backups | The Client Backups report shows detailed information about the backups that completed within the specified time period. |
Problems | The Problems report generates a list of the problems that the server has logged during the specified time period. The information in this report is a subset of the information that is obtained from the All Log Entries report. |
All Log Entries | The All Log Entries report generates a list of all log entries for the specified time period. This report includes the information from the Problems report and Media Logs report. This report also displays the transfer rate. The transfer rate is useful to determine rates and predict backup times for future backups. (The transfer rate does not appear for multiplexed backups.) |
Images on Media | The Images on Media report generates a list of the media contents as recorded in the NetBackup image catalog. You can generate this report for any type of media (including disk) and filter it according to client, media ID, or path. |
Media Logs | The Media Logs report shows the media errors or the informational messages that are recorded in the NetBackup error catalog. |
Images on Tape | The Images on Tape report generates the contents of the tape-based media as recorded in the NetBackup image catalog. The Images on Tape is a subset of the Images on Media report. |
Tape Logs | The Tape Logs report displays all error logs related to tape-based backup and recovery. The Tape Logs report is a subset of the Media Logs report. |
Tape Contents | The Tape Contents report (formerly known as the Media Contents report) generates a list of the contents of a volume as read directly from the media header and backup headers. This report lists the backup IDs (not each individual file) that are on a single volume. If a tape must be mounted, the delay is longer before the report appears.
Before running this report, you can choose to override the default job priority for the job. The default priority is specified in the Default Job Priorities host properties. |
Tape Summary | The Tape Summary report summarizes active and nonactive volumes for the specified media owner according to expiration date. It also shows how many volumes are at each retention level. In verbose mode, the report shows each media ID and the expiration date.
Nonactive media are those with a status of FULL, FROZEN, SUSPENDED, or IMPORTED. Other volumes are considered active.
Expired volumes with a status of FULL, SUSPENDED, or IMPORTED do not appear in the report. However, expired volumes with a FROZEN status do appear in the report. NetBackup deletes other expired volumes from the media catalog when it runs backups. An expired volume of a different status can display if the report is run between the time the volume expires and the time that the next backup is done. |
Tape Written | The Tape Written report identifies the volumes that were used for backups within the specified time period. The report also does not display the volumes that were used for duplication if the original was created before the specified time period. |
Tape Lists | The Tape Lists report generates information about the volumes that are allocated for backups for the selected media owner or media ID.
This report does not show media for disk type storage units. For the backups that are saved to disk storage units, use the Images on Media report or the Images on Disk report. |
Images on Disk | The Images on Disk report generates the image list present on the disk storage units that are connected to the media server. The Images on Disk report is a subset of the Images on Media report, showing only disk-specific columns. |
Disk Logs | The Disk Logs report displays all error logs related to disk-based backup and recovery. The Disk Logs report is a subset of the Media Logs report. |
Disk Storage Unit Status | The Disk Storage Unit Status report displays the state of the disk storage units in the current NetBackup configuration. (For example, the total capacity and the used capacity of the disk storage unit.)
Multiple storage units can point to the same disk pool. When the report query searches by storage unit, the report counts the capacity of disk pool storage multiple times.
Storage units that reference disk groups do not display capacity values. |
Disk Pool Status | The Disk Pool Status report generates the details of one or more disk pools. |
For information about Vault reports, see the NetBackup Vault Administrator's Guide.
