Viewing Backup Logs

To monitor or troubleshoot the backup activity of a specific backup policy, you can review the list of started policy sessions. For deeper analysis, you can also check session logs and download them in the CSV format. Each log record contains a timestamp, event status and message.

Viewing Backup Sessions

To view a list of sessions related to a specific backup policy, do the following:

  1. Select Flex Backups on the left.
  2. In the Customer field, select a customer. To quickly find a customer with a specific name, start typing the name in the field.
  3. Click the name of a policy that you want to view.
  4. In the Backup Session section, the portal displays the list of backup sessions that were started using the selected policy.
  5. In the list of backup sessions, you can do the following:
  • Click the View logs button on the right of the session to display backup logs.
  • Click the Download logs button on the right of the session to download the file with backup logs.

For more information on how to work with backup logs, see the Viewing Backup Logs section of the Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365 User Guide.

Viewing Backup Logs

Exporting Backup Sessions

The portal allows you to export backup session logs to a CSV file for further analysis and reporting. The file is compressed in the ZIP format.

To export a list of backup sessions, do the following:

  1. Select Flex Backups on the left.
  2. In the Customer field, select a customer. To quickly find a customer with a specific name, start typing the name in the field.
  3. Click Export Sessions.
  4. In the Select Month window, select the month for which you want to export data.
  5. Click Export to download the file.

Viewing Backup Logs