Recovery Point Status Report

Article
05/17/2011

Applies To: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) features an enhanced recovery point status reporting. It gives administrators a high-level view of whether backup SLAs are being met for every data source. It is also useful to backup operators who can quickly identify if backup SLAs are being met and then prioritize the data source that the operator needs to focus on.

This report can be configured to be sent as an e-mail so that administrators don’t need to login to the DPM server to track recovery point status.

Viewing Recovery Point Status

The Recovery Point Status report provides the recovery point status of all selected data sources. If a minimum of one good recovery point is present in the specified recovery point window, the status is shown as green. A blank recovery point window indicates that no recovery point is present in that time window.

You can view this report from either the Protection tab or the Reporting tab of the Administrator Console.

If you launch the report from the Protection tab, you can view the report for all the data sources that interest you. Launching the report from the Reporting tab will only show data for data sources protected by that DPM server.

Viewing Report from Reporting Tab

Double-click Recovery Point Status Report in the Reporting tab of the Administrator Console. This will bring up the Recovery Point Status Options dialog box.
On the General tab in the Recovery Point Status Options dialog box, you have:
- Date and time options – Specify the date range for which the report should be generated.
- Protection type – Select whether the report should display items protected on disk, tape or online or a combination of these.
On the Advanced tab in the Recovery Point Status Options dialog box, you can specify a different the recovery point window for each protection group.
Click Generate to view the report.

Viewing Report from Protection Tab

On the Protection tab, use the View recovery point status link. If you have not selected a protection group, DPM will display the status for all protection groups. If you have selected one or more protection groups or data sources, then only the status of selected items will be displayed.

Warning

If you select an inactive data source no report will be generated.

Setting Scheduling and E-mail Options

You can schedule when you want the Recover Point Status report to run using the Schedule option in the Actions pane on the Protection tab of the Administrator Console.

On the Schedule tab

Specify whether you want the report to run on a schedule.
Specify the frequency for when the report will be run.
Specify how many days’ worth of reports need to be maintained in history.

On the E-mail tab

Specify the people to whom the report must be emailed.
Specify the format for the report.