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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide
  3. Monitoring and Reporting
  4. Viewing the compression ratio
Veritas NetBackup™ Cloud Administrator's Guide

Viewing the compression ratio

The bptm logs provide information of the compression ratio of your data after the backup is taken in the cloud storage. The compression ratio is calculated by dividing the original size with the compressed size. For example, if the original data is of 15302918144 bytes and is compressed to 7651459072, then the compression ratio is 2.00.

To view the compression ratio

  1. Note down the bptm PID of the backup job.

    See Viewing cloud storage job details.

  2. Open the bptm.log file. The log file resides in the following directories:

    UNIX

    /usr/openv/netbackup/logs/

    Windows

    install_path\NetBackup\logs\

  3. Search for the bptm PID instance.

    The following lines provide the compression ratio information according to the image format:

    date:time <PID> <4> 35:bptm:<PID>:
    media_server_IP: compress: image image_name_C1_F1 
    compressed from data in bytes to data in bytes bytes, 
    compression ratio ratio_value
    date:time <PID> <4> 35:bptm:<PID>:
    media_server_IP: compress: image image_name_C1_HDR 
    compressed from data in bytes to data in bytes bytes, 
    compression ratio ratio_value

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