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When using

Workstation

Edition

, this report is always run in order of backup

job. The option of running by client is not available.


Running the report by client
: Select

Reports

!Backup History!By Client

. You may select one or more clients

for which to print the report or, by not specifying any clients, the report will be reported for all clients. The report
may be printed even for clients that are no longer configured by manually typing the client name in the entry
box. You may optionally select to print subtotals by Job ID, detailing the average megabytes, number of
minutes, and Kbytes per second for each job under which the client bas been backed up. These averages will
also be shown for each client in the list.

Running the report by Job ID: Select

Reports

!Backup History!By Job ID

. You may select one or more Job

IDs for which to print the report or, by not specifying any job IDs, the report will be reported for all Job IDs. The
report may be printed even for jobs no longer configured by manually typing the job ID in the entry box. You
may optionally select to print subtotals by client, detailing the average megabytes, number of minutes, and
Kbytes per second for each client within the job. These averages will also be shown for each job in the list.

You may also select starting and ending dates for this report. If provided, the report will only include backups
that occurred within that date range.

Restore History

To print a Restore History Report showing details regarding the restore, select

Reports

!Restore History

from

the main menu bar. A further option is provided for running the report in the order of job or backup ID.

Restore history was introduced in SBAdmin v8.1. Therefore, only restores
performed with SBAdmin v8.1 will be reported.


Running the report by Job ID
: Select

Reports

!Restore History!By Job ID

. You may select one or more Job

IDs for which to print the report or, by not specifying any job IDs, the report will be reported for all job IDs.

Running the report by Backup ID: Select

Reports

!Restore History!By Backup ID

. You may select one or

more Backup IDs for which to print the report or, by not specifying any backup IDs, the report will be reported
for all backup IDs.

You may also select starting and ending dates for this report. If provided, the report will only include restores
that occurred within that date range.

Backup Expiration Report

To print a report showing the backup labels past their expiration dates, select

Reports

!Backup Expiration

Report

from the main menu bar. You will have the option of showing all backups, even if they are not past their

expiration date, backups past their expiration dates as of today’s date, or backups that will be past their
expiration date as of a specified date.

This resulting report will tell you what backups are past their expiration date and may be expired. Of course, any
backup may be expired manually (See

expiring a backup

), and if your

overwrite policy

is set to allow any

overwriting of backups and you did not specify a , then the backups will always be expired when they are
overwritten.

A backup will be shown on this report if any of the following are true:

1. You are listing all backups, regardless of their expiration date.

2. There is no

backup retention period

specified in the job settings.

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