Number of successful jobs / number of jobs run is a good start but everyone’s metric is going to be different here.  For example, do you want full and incremental jobs? Restore jobs? How about large / multi-stream backups? If I backup a 4TB oracle database 99% in 20 backup sets, do I get credit for 19 successful jobs and 1 failure or should I consider the entire backup and all 20 jobs failures?  How about if my robot runs out of scratch media and I go 18 hours at some remote site with hundreds of DSSU de-staging jobs failing with error 96s? Do you consider status 1s a success or only status 0?

 

Depending on your answers to these questions (and many more) your success rate could vary significantly.

 

-Jonathan

 

 

Maybe he wanted to know the math.

 

Find out how many jobs you run (good and bad)

How many of those fail.

 

1000 jobs run

10 of those fail

Giving you 990 good jobs

 

990/1000 = 99%

 

 

I believe most people on the list are using a backup reporting tool. I use Aptare, but there are others and you can also script it to provide you success rates.

Those who are watching their success rates are in the 90's. Those who are not think their rate is better than what it really is.

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HI

Can I understand what is way calculating backup success rate?


Thanks and Rgds
Nitin

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We have consistently been in the 90% plus.....

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I've been asked what I think the national average is for backup
success.  I recall hearing at one time that it was around 85-86% ...
What do you believe this to be?

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