Administrator Recovery Report
Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005
The Administrator Recovery Report provides statistics on administrator-initiated recoveries only. It illustrates the number of recoveries, and the average size and time of these recoveries over the selected time period. The data is collected per file server and aggregated for all file servers or per protection group and aggregated for all protection groups.
The first page of the report, the summary page, shows recovery statistics for all file servers or protection groups at a file server or protection group level, as specified in the report parameters. Subsequent pages, the detailed pages, show details of recoveries for each file server or protection group at a volume level.
Frequently asked questions
While you are reviewing the data in the Administrator Recovery Report, you may have questions about how to use the data or interpret the report.
Do the pie charts include data for all entities protected by DPM?
No, the distributions that are represented by pie-charts on the summary page include only the top 10 file servers or protection groups with unique values. The detail pages show only the top 10 volumes with unique values.
What is the difference between distribution of recoveries and distribution of recovery time?
Distribution of recoveries indicates the frequency of recovery requests; distribution of recovery time indicates the entity that consumed the most network time during these recoveries. Recovery time may be affected by network configuration and/or location of recovery destination.
Note
The file servers or protection groups listed indicate the protected items (volumes that belong to the file server or protection group) being recovered, not the recovery destination.
What does throughput mean?
Throughput is an indicator of how efficiently recovery jobs are being performed over the network.
Why is the number of recovery job failures increasing?
A rising trend in recovery job failures may be due to an increased number of network outages and/or job cancellations. The data for recovery failures only includes administrator-initiated cancellations of recovery jobs, not cancellations initiated by end-users. For information about the status of recovery jobs for the last 30 days, see How to check job status.
Why is data for an inactive protection group included in the report?
If you delete a protection group but retain its associated shadow copies, you can still recover data from those shadow copies. As long as you retain the replicas and shadow copies for a deleted protection group, the recovery statistics for the protection group are included in the Administrator Recovery Report, both on the summary page and on the detail pages. Recovery statistics for deleted protection groups are displayed under the “(Inactive Replicas)” heading. For information about deleting protection groups, see Working with protection groups.