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title: "Protected Files and Object Storage"
description: "This report analyzes backup protection of unstructured data stored in file shares and object storage. The report examines the status of Veeam Backup & Replication protected files and provides details on your infrastructure SLAs."
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# Protected Files and Object Storage

This report analyzes backup protection of unstructured data stored in file shares and object storage. The report examines the status of Veeam Backup & Replication protected files and provides details on your infrastructure SLAs.

File shares, buckets and storage accounts that have not been added to any Veeam Backup & Replication inventory are not included in this report.

- The **Summary** display includes the following elements:
  - The **Report Parameters** and **Summary** sections shows the volume of backup objects by their data structure status on your backup servers (*Total Unstructured Data, Protected Unstructured Data, Unprotected Unstructured Data*).
  - The **Unstructured Data Protection Status** chart shows the division of your backup data into structured and unstructured instances.
  - The **Unstructured Data Last Backup State** chart shows the status of your data backups on their success or failure state.
  - The **Unstructured Data Last Backup Age** chart shows the status of your backup data based on its Recovery Point Objective status.

- The **Report Data** display includes the following tables:

  - The **Details - Protected Unstructured Data** table shows the status of all file and object storage sources that are successfully protected by a backup job including server and job names, protection types, processing and restore type data.
  - The **Details - Unprotected Unstructured Data** table shows the status of all file and object storage sources that are not currently protected by a backup job including server and job names, unprotected reason, processing and restore type data.
  - The **Job Details - Protected Unstructured Data** table shows the status of all discovered file and object storage sources that are currently protected including groups, backup servers, results, processing data and skipped locations.

## Report Parameters

You can specify the following report parameters:

- **Infrastructure objects**: defines a list of Veeam Backup & Replication servers to include in the report.
- **RPO**: defines the Recovery Point Objective time period which is the maximum period for acceptable loss of data (*value, time period definition* including *minutes, hours, days and so on*).
- **Processed Percentage**: defines the percentage of the acceptable volume of data retention for restore operations.
- **Unstructured Data exclusion rule**: defines a list of file/object that should be excluded from the report scope. You can enter names explicitly or create a wildcard mask by using the asterisk (\*) to replace any number of characters. Multiple entries are separated by semicolon. For example, the following string will exclude machines with the _R&D suffix from appearing in the report: *\*\_R&D*.
- **Job types**: defines a job type to evaluate in the report (*File backup*, *Object storage backup*).



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## Use Case

This report helps you discover protected objects that breach the target SLA, and jobs that do not operate properly.