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Using Backup Manager Reports for Analysis
Management Reports offer a variety of ways to view data. Using high-level reports, you can quickly summarize your backup status and then when needed, drill down to the details. The Portal reports will quickly replace your command-line tasks that you use to cobble together event status information.
These management reports can aid in troubleshooting to:
• diagnose malfunctioning backup servers
• determine scheduling conflicts
• analyze throughput issues
• identify storage media degradation
The following table lists several examples of exposure analysis tasks and the reports that support your diagnostic efforts.
What to do:
How to do it:
1. Determine the status of your backup jobs.
• What failed and how severely?
• Why did a job take so long?
• Did another job hold it up?
 
Drill down to details.
2. Diagnose backup scheduling issues.
Job Duration Report
Job Volume Summary
• From these reports, you can click on a bar to drill down to details in the Job Summary report.
3. Diagnose backup server problems.
Error Log Summary by Server
4. Diagnose client problems.
Consecutive Errors By Client
• Drill down to investigate error conditions.
• Use the Consecutive Errors by Client report in conjunction with the Error Log Summary, which displays specific error code messages.