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title: "Restore Operator Activity"
description: "The report provides information on restore operations performed across the selected Veeam Backup & Replication servers. The Restore Operator Activity report can be used to trace user activity concerning operations performed across the selected..."
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# Restore Operator Activity

The report provides information on restore operations performed across the selected Veeam Backup & Replication servers.

## Description

The **Restore Operator Activity** report can be used to trace user activity concerning operations performed across the selected Veeam Backup & Replication servers:

- Application item restore (including replica failover, VM files restore, Instant VM Recovery and VM virtual disks restore) 
- Full VM restore 
- Guest files restore 

::: note

To run the **Restore Operator Activity** report, you must have Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center installed.

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## Parameters

Date/time Selection: defines the time period to analyze in the report.

Aggregation Type: defines whether the data in the report will be aggregated *Hourly* , *Daily* or *Weekly* .

Scope: defines a list of Veeam Backup & Replication servers that will be analyzed in the report (by default, the **Veeam Backup Server** **Group** is selected).  
 The **Add Group** option returns a Group and all objects that the group contains. The **Add Object** option returns only the selected object.

Users: defines backup administrators or restore operators whose restore activity need to be analyzed.

::: note

The list of users may be empty in case no changes were made since Veeam management packs were imported.

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Restore Type: defines the type of restore ( *Application Item Restores* , *Full VM Restore* , *Guest Files* or *All* ) to include in the report.

## Sample Usage

Find out what users restored full VMs during this week.

### Instructions

1. Open the Restore Operator Activity report. 
2. From the **From** list, select *This Week > Monday.* From the **To** list, select *This Week > Friday.* 
3. From the **Aggregation** **Type** list, select *Daily* . 
4. Leave the **Scope** section without changes. 
5. In the **Users** list, select the necessary backup administrators or restore operators. 
6. In the **Restore Type** list, select *Full VM Restore* . 
7. Click **Run** to view the report. 

### Report Output

The report will provide information on *Full VM Restore* for the specified users.

The **Summary** doughnut chart will display total number of restore operations performed by each user during the past week.

The **Restore Statistics** chart will show the number of *Full VM Restore* performed on each week day.

The details table will provide the following details:

<table style="width:100%;" class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Column </p>
    </th>
    <th style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Description </p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Restore Type </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Type of performed restore operation. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Initiator </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Initiating user. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> VM Name </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Name of the restored VM. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Restore Point </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Restore point to which the VM, file or application item was restored. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Restored Item </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Number and names of restored objects. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Destination </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Restore destination path. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Start Time </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Date and time when the restore operation was performed. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td style="vertical-align:top; width:20%;">
      <p> Status </p>
    </td>
    <td style="vertical-align:top;">
      <p> Status of the completed restore operation. </p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>