Enhanced reporting

Aside from displaying reports by users, version 3.0 also displays reports by date for every user, allowing administrators to quickly get a snapshot of backup jobs that ran for a particular day.

The four types of report are:

• Report by user - Click here for a screen shot.
• Report by date - Click here for a screen shot.
• Inactivity report - Display users who did not run a backup in the last 24 hours
• Report via email - Administrators can receive an email containing a summarized report for past 24 hours

Exporting client backup log to CSV

Administrators now have the ability to save the backup log generated by a client on the server machine. This data is stored in CSV (comma separated values) on the server, which can be easily imported into a relational database for further analysis.

This option is enabled by default. To confirm this option is enabled, follow the steps below:

• Go to your installation directory of Syncrify, which is usually on C:\Program Files\Syncrify in Windows, or /opt/Syncrify in Linux.
• Here, go to the config folder
• Look for a file named AppConfig.xml. Open this file with a text editor, such as Notepad.
• Look for the following line: name="saveClientBackupLog" type="4" value="true"
• Confirm the value is set to true. If it is set to false, change the value to true, then save the file and restart Syncrify.

With this option, the Syncrify client will send the backup log to the server, which then converts that into a CSV file and saves it to a local folder. These files are located on the $INSTALLDIR/ClientBackupLogs folder.

File names use the following format:

DATE_ELAPSEDTIME.csv

The first token contains a date with the value represented in milliseconds since January 01, 1970. The second token holds the number of milliseconds the backup ran for.

File format

Every CSV file contains 3 columns:

1. Action -Contains an integer from 1 to 7 signifying the state of the file.
   
   1. Entire file
   2. No change
   3. Partial file
   4. Deleted
   5. Restored - (Partial file)
      
   6. Error
   7. Warning
   8. Restored - (Entire file)
      
2. File size -
3. File path -