=> On Thu, 29 May 2003 08:39:15 -0500, Andy Carlson <andyc AT ANDYC.CARENET DOT 
ORG> said:

> What are most people doing about reporting metrics to your superiors?  My
> bosses boss is asking for metrics, but I am not sure what to give him, and
> he is not sure what he wants.  It would be easy to give him GB backed up per
> night, but I can't come up with what else I shoud give him.  Number of
> failed backups maybe?  Thanks for any input.


My interesting numbers include

- Amount backed up
- Amount of 'maintainance traffic' (reclaim offsites, etc)
- Percentage use of available sequential-media devices
- Percentage use of available sequential-media volumes



- Allen S. Rout