File Shares

In Veeam Service Provider Console you can view and export job and policy details for the following types of file shares:

• Virtual Infrastructure — file shares in the virtual infrastructure.
• Public Cloud — file shares in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud public clouds.

Viewing Virtual Infrastructure File Share Details

To view and export file share job details:

1. Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console.

For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console.

2. In the menu on the left, click Backup Jobs.
3. Open the File Shares tab and navigate to Virtual Infrastructure.

Veeam Service Provider Console will display a list of all file jobs configured on managed backup servers.

To narrow down the list of jobs, you can apply the following filters:

• Job — search jobs by job name.
• Server — search jobs by name of a file share server.
• Status — limit the list of jobs by the result of the latest job session (Success, Warning, Failed, Running, Information).
• Type — limit the list of jobs by type (File share backup, File share backup copy, File copy, File to tape).

• Company/Location — limit the list of jobs by company and location to which jobs belong. To limit the list of jobs by company and location, use filters at the top left corner of the Veeam Service Provider Console window.

4. To export job details, click Export to and choose a format of the exported data:

• CSV — choose this option to structure exported data as a CSV file.
• XML — choose this option to structure exported data as an XML file.

The file with exported data will be saved to the default download location on your computer.

Each job in the list is described with a set of properties. By default, some properties in the list are hidden. To display additional properties, click the ellipsis on the right of the list header and choose job properties that must be displayed.

• Job Status — status of the latest job session (Success, Warning, Failed, Running, No Info).
• Job — name of a data protection job.
• Backup Server — name of a backup server on which a job is configured.
• Company — name of a company to which a job belongs.

• Site — name of the Veeam Cloud Connect site on which the company is registered.

• Location — name of a location to which a job belongs.
• Server — name of a file share server. If a job protects multiple file shares, this column displays the number of servers included in the job.

You can click this property, to view and export details of file shares included in a job. For details, see File Share Details.

• Job Type — type of a file protection job (File share backup, File share backup copy, File copy, File to tape).
• Source Size — size of protected data at the source file share.
• Backed Up Files — percentage of files on a source server protected by a job.

You can click this property, to view and export details of file shares included in a job. For details, see File Share Details.

• Destination — name of a target backup location.
• Last Run — amount of time since the latest job session started.
• Archive Repository — name of a backup repository where long-term backups are stored.
• Duration — time taken to complete the latest job session.
• Avg. Duration — average time a job session takes to complete (total duration of job sessions for the previous month divided by the number of job sessions for the previous month).
• Processing Rate — rate at which data was processed during the latest job session.
• Transferred Data — total amount of data that was transferred to target during the latest job session.
• Schedule — type of schedule configured for the job (Daily, Monthly, Periodically, Continuously, Chained, Not scheduled, Disabled).
• Bottleneck — bottleneck in the process of transferring the data from source to target (source, proxy, network, target).

File Share Details

The following details are available for protected file shares:

• Status — status of the latest file share job session.
• Server — name of a file share server.
• Files & Folders — number of files and folders included in a job.

Click this property to see the names of backup up items and applied file masks.

• N. of Files — number of files protected on a file share.
• Changed Files — number of files changed since the previous restore point was created for a file share.
• Transferred Files — percentage of changed files, that were successfully transferred to target during the latest job session.
• Duration — time taken to complete the latest job session.

Viewing Public Cloud File Share Details

To view and export policy details for file shares in the public clouds:

1. Log in to Veeam Service Provider Console.

For details, see Accessing Veeam Service Provider Console.

2. In the menu on the left, click Backup Jobs.
3. Open the File Shares tab and navigate to Public Clouds.

Veeam Service Provider Console will display a list of all policies configured to store file backups on external repositories integrated with managed backup servers.

To narrow down the list of policies, you can apply the following filters:

• File Share — search policies by name of a protected file share.
• Policy — search policies by name.
• Status — limit the list of policies by the result of the latest session (Success, Warning, Failed, Running, Information).
• Type — limit the list of policies by type (Snapshot, Replica snapshot).
• Platform — limit the list of policies by cloud platform on which protected file shares reside (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud).
• Company/Location — limit the list of policies by company and location to which policies belong. To limit the list of policies by company and location, use filters at the top left corner of the Veeam Service Provider Console window.

4. To export policy details, click Export to and choose a format of the exported data:

• CSV — choose this option to structure exported data as a CSV file.
• XML — choose this option to structure exported data as an XML file.

The file with exported data will be saved to the default download location on your computer.

Each policy in the list is described with a set of properties. By default, some properties in the list are hidden. To display additional properties, click the ellipsis on the right of the list header and choose job properties that must be displayed.

• Name — name of a protected file share.

• Backup Appliance — name of an appliance to which a policy belongs.

• Company — name of a company to which a policy belongs.
• Site — name of the Veeam Cloud Connect site on which the company is registered.
• Location — name of a location to which a policy belongs.

• Resource ID — ID of a Microsoft Azure VM, AWS EC2 instance or Google Cloud VM instance.

• Platform — name of a cloud platform on which a protected file share resides.
• Policy — policy name.
• Policy State — state of a policy schedule (Enabled, Disabled).
• Last Snapshot — status of the latest snapshot session and amount of time since the session completed.
• Last Replica Snapshot — status of the latest replication snapshot session and amount of time since the session completed.
• Next Run — date and time of the next scheduled policy run.
• Server Name — name of a backup server with which an external repository hosting backup files is integrated.
• Backup Target — name of a snapshot target location.
• Backup Copy Target — name of a replica snapshot target location.