Restore Reports

Detailed Restore Report

Overview

This section will give you information about the detailed restore report for the restored backup data in Gbackup.

• Overview
• How to get here in the Gbackup Web Console?
• Restore Report
• Summary of Restore Report
• Detailed Restore Report
• View List of Skipped Files
• SQL Server Restore Details
• Exchange Server Restore Details
• Restored Exchange Server Mail Store Details
• Exchange Mailbox Restore Details
• Restored Exchange User Mailbox Details
• Troubleshooting Tips
• Limitations

How to get here in the Gbackup Web Console?
In the top menu, select: "Reports->Restore Reports". This will list all the backup schedules (in a tabular format) for which a restore operation has been performed. Click on the backup name link to see the detailed restore report.

Restore Report

This page gives a detailed report of all the restore operations done for this backup.

The restore reports are displayed in a table format with each row representing a restore operation. Click on the "Show Report" icon at the start of each row to show/hide a detailed restore report for that restore operation.

Summary of Restore Report

The following summary is provided in each row of the restore report table:

• Backup Server Name - The backup server from which the restore was done.

• Start Time - The time at which the restore operation was started.

• End Time - The time at which the restore operation was completed.

• Total Files - Total number of files present in the backup server that need to be restored.

• Number Of Files Restored - The number of files successfully restored.
• Number Of Files Skipped - The number of files that could not be restored.

Some of the reasons a file may not be restored are:

1. Error in opening the original file in the server.
2. Error in opening the version file in the server.
3. Error in creating the file in the client.
4. Error in writing to the file in the client.
5. Error in decompressing the original file.
6. Error in decompressing the version file.
7. Error in loading the original file for applying the rsync delta patch.
8. Error occurred while applying the rsync delta patch on the original file.
9. If there are skipped files, then you will have a View link, which, when clicked, will list the skipped files and also the details on the reasons as to why the file was skipped.

    

10. Success Rate - The percentage of files that were successfully restored.

Detailed Restore Report

• The following additional details are given in the detailed restore report which is shown when you click on the left hand side icon "Show Report" in the respective restore report table row.
• Restore Location - The destination directory (in the client machine) where the backup data is restored to. Note that the data will be restored with the full original path under this destination directory – just so you know where the data was in the first place! If the restore was done to the original location, then it simply says so!
• Total Time Taken - The time taken for the full restore operation to complete.
• Selected Version For Restore - The timestamp based version selected for restore.
• Restore Deleted Files - Whether the deleted files were restored or not.
• Restore Advanced Option Selected - Which of the advanced options were selected for restore.
• Total Remaining Files - Number of files that could not be restored.
• Transferred Size - The total bytes transferred from the server to the client.
• Original Size - The original size of the data that was restored.
• Warning Messages - If there was a problem during restore, warning messages would be generated to identify the problem.
• Remarks - The final result of the restore operation. Whether successful, failure, or incomplete etc.

View List of Skipped Files

This page lists all the files that could not be restored to client machine. The table is shown 100 files at a time.

• SNo. - The serial number column to keep track of the number of files.
• File Name - The name of the file backed up.
• Location - The directory in which the file is present.
• Remarks - This will give the reason why the file could not be restored to client machine.

SQL Server Restore Details

The following details are given in the detailed restore report of SQL Server Restore Details section, which is shown when you click on the left hand side icon "Show Report" in the respective restore report table row.

• SQL Server Instance Name - Name of the SQL Server Instance in which database restore was performed.
• Original Database Name - Name of the database configured for backup.
• Restored Database Name - Name of the database selected in the "Restore as database" drop-down option will be displayed. For a new database, the database will be created and then the contents of the backup will be restored.
• Database Restore Start Time - The time at which the SQL Server restore operation was started.
• Database Restore End Time - The time at which the SQL Server restore operation was completed.
• Total Time Taken - The time taken for the SQL Server database restore operation to complete.
• Original Database Size - The size of the original database configured for restore. For an existing database, the size of the database before restore operation will be displayed.
• Restored Database Size - The size of the database after restore operation.
• Force Restore - The status of the option "Overwrite the existing database" selected while restoring database. This option will be selected, if the existing database name should be replaced with a different name.
• Recovery State - This displays the "Recovery State" option selected while restoring database as "Restore with Recovery"/"Restore with Norecovery"/"Restore with Standby".
• Database Physical Files - This displays the name and location of the physical files used when database is restored. This field will be displayed in report, if you are restoring to a different server or to a different database name, or you have changed these options for both the data file and the transaction log file while configuring restore.
• Standby file - This displays the standby file and location used to undo uncommitted transactions when the database is brought fully online. This field will be displayed if the "Recovery State" option is selected as "Leave the database in read-only mode".
• Database Restore Status - Displays the database status{ONLINE/OFFLINE/RESTORING/RECOVERING/SUSPECT} after restore operation.
• Result Messages - Messages generated from SQL Server during restore operation will be displayed here.
• Remarks - Remarks from Gbackup about the SQL Server during restore operation.

Exchange Server Restore Details

The following details are given in the detailed restore report of Exchange Server Restore Details section, which is shown when you click on the left hand side icon "Show Report" in the respective restore report table row.

• Original Exchange Server Name - Name of the Exchange Server from which Storage Group(s)/MailStore(s) was configured for backup.
• Restored Exchange Server Name - Name of the Exchange Server in which Storage Group(s)/MailStore(s) restore operation was configured. by default both the original and restore Exchange Server name will be same.
• Mount Database after restore - Displays the status, whether the Mount Database After Restore check box was selected for restore operation.
• Exchange restore start time - The time at which the Exchange Server restore operation was started.
• Exchange restore end time - The time at which the Exchange Server restore operation was completed.
• Total Time Taken - The time taken for the Exchange Server restore operation to complete.
• Temporary location for log and patch files - The temporary directory (in the client machine) where the log and patch files are temporarily stored. During the restore process, Exchange Server will first apply the older transaction logs from the temporary directory and then apply the more recent logs from the original location. This directory will be different from the one where the original log files are stored.
• Exchange restore status - Status will report the success or failure of the Exchange Server restore operation.
• Result Messages - Messages generated from Exchange Server during restore operation will be displayed here.
• Remarks - Remarks from Gbackup about the Exchange Server during restore operation.

Exchange Mailbox Restore Details

The following details are given in the detailed restore report of Exchange Mailbox Restore Details section, which is shown when you click on the left hand side icon "Show Report" in the respective restore report table row.

• Exchange Server Name - Name of the Exchange Server from which user's mailbox was configured for backup.

• Exchange restore start time - Time at which the Exchange Mailbox restore operation started.

• Exchange restore end time - Time at which the Exchange Mailbox restore operation completed.

• Total Time Taken - Time taken for the Exchange Mailbox restore operation to complete.

• Exchange restore status - Status reporting the success or failure of the Exchange Mailbox restore operation.

• Remarks - Remarks on the restore operation.

Troubleshooting Tips

Limitations