Greg,
Great questions. I would say that it depends on the
audience. Any reporting tool on the market for NBU today can give you this
information in different "slices". Many clients do track this information
and it is a great way to get a quick "health check" of the environment. If
you are tracking this information for Management, I would speculate they are
interested on the % of successful backups you ran and if you are meeting
SLA's. High level reports of the number successful vs. the number of
backups run should suffice. For their level, you may decide to strip out
test backups, backups that were intentionally killed, and backups with multiple
attempts. But that may depend on your environment and management.
If you are reporting for business units, DBAs, SA's..etc,
they primarily care about if their backup ran or not. You would probably
want to strip out failed attempts, but you might choose to include a report on
backups that should have run but didn't
If you are creating a report for yourself or other NBU
operators, you probably want to look at multiple attempts. This can help
you identify potential issues in your environment that could threaten future
success of your backups.
I don't know if your going to Vision this year, but there
are several sessions on backup reporting you might want to check
out.
Good Luck
Reneé Carlisle
ServerWare
Corporation
How does everyone
track this? Do you count just total successfully backups vs. the number of
attempts? And how do you handle a backup that failed 3 times but ran good on the
forth?
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