Tape Media Retention Period

This report provides information on retention policy settings configured for tape media pools in Veeam Backup & Replication.

• Tapes By Expiration Status chart displays the number of protected tapes, the number of tapes with no expiration date, the number of tapes without defined expiration date and the number of tapes which can expire any time.
• Expired tapes status chart displays the share of online and offline expired tapes.
• Expired Media, Protected Media, No expiration and Other Media tables provide information on tapes, media pools and media sets: tape state which shows whether the tape is online, location of the tape, the last date and time when data was archived to the tape, the total capacity and amount of free space left on the tape, retention policy configured for the media pool and the date when retention expires.

Use Case

This report allows you to review retention policies applied to tapes and estimate available tape resources.

Report Parameters

Scope: defines a list of Veeam Backup & Replication servers to include in the report.

Tape Status: defines whether the status of tapes to include in the report (Expired, Protected, Never to Expire, Other or All).