Report on data protection coverage

10/02/2023 Contributors

With BlueXP backup and recovery reports, you can ensure that critical data is protected according to your organization’s defined policies and provide audits for compliance needs.

BlueXP backup and recovery reports help you accomplish the following:

Operations visibility: Monitor your service level agreements regarding data protection, backup success rate, and backup window alignment to business needs.
Compliance and auditing: Use operational and inventory reports in your internal and external audit processes for ongoing monitoring of compliance.

Report activities are monitored in the Job Monitoring log so that you can audit all activities. Learn about Job Monitoring.

Reports scope

The BlueXP backup and recovery reports provide information about the following aspects:

Connector location: On-premises or the cloud
Source: Cloud Volumes ONTAP volumes, on-premises ONTAP volumes, applications, or Kubernetes persistent volumes
Destination: Any of the cloud providers, NetApp StorageGRID, or ONTAP S3
ONTAP versions: 9.13.0

Create a Backup Inventory report

From the BlueXP backup and recovery Reports tab, you can create the Backup Inventory report and filter its contents. With the Backup Inventory report, you can see all your backups for a specific account, working environment, or SVM inventory.

The Backup Inventory report shows the following information and more:

Account, working environment, and SVM
Protected and non-protected volumes
Backup target
Applied backup policy
Encryption style (provider-managed key or user-managed key)
DataLock and Ransomware protection status (governance, compliance, or none)
Archive enabled status
Count of backup copies
Backup type (scheduled or user-initiated ad-hoc backup)
Storage class
Snapshot label

The Backup Inventory report doesn't include expired or failed backup information.

The top of the report includes a graph that shows the following information:

Count of volumes in scope with at least one backup
Total of inactive volumes plus active volumes

The Backup Inventory report shows the following charts:

Volume backup status: Shows protected compared to non-protected volumes for the selected scope.
Volumes by backup count: Groups volumes by the number of available backup copies for this volume.

Steps

From the top menu, select Reports.
Select Backup inventory.
Select Create report.
Select the account, working environment, and SVM.

You can select multiple working environments and SVMs.
Select the timeframe: last 24 hours, week, or month.
Review the report sections (Snapshot Policies, Replication Policies, or Backup Policies), depending on your report selections.
(Optional) Filter the results by job status.
(Optional) Export the report contents in .CSV format by selecting Download CSV.

Create a Data Protection Job Activity report

Proactive monitoring can reduce effort required to monitor all resources in your ecosystem. Beginning with ONTAP 9.13.0, the Data Protection Job Activity report provides information about snapshot, backup, clone, and restore operations that you can use with your SLA monitoring and track backup and recovery rates.

The report applies to BlueXP backup and recovery operations for Cloud Volumes ONTAP, on-premises, applications, and Kubernetes data.

The Data Protection Job Activity report shows the following information and more:

Account, working environment, and SVM
Job type (backup or restore)
Resource name (volume or application)
Job status
Start and end times and duration
Policy name for backup jobs
Snapshot label for backup jobs

The charts at the top of the page show the following information:

Jobs by type
- Count of ONTAP volumes backup and restore jobs
- Count of application backup and restore jobs
- Count of virtual machine backup and restore jobs
- Count of Kubernetes backup and restore jobs
Daily job activity