Risk Analysis > Recovery Point Objective report
| Article:HOWTO71574 | | | Created: 2012-02-08 | | | Updated: 2012-02-09 | | | Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO71574 |
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO) have emerged as generally accepted metrics for client recoverability. This report ranks all clients by the amount of time that is elapsed since their last successful backup. The report shows how long it has been since each system has had a successful backup and therefore would have difficulty meeting a Recovery Point. In larger environments being able to run this report on a weekly basis will quickly show where there is risk due to systems that have not been backed up in a pre-determined amount of time.
In contrast to the Client Risk Analysis report, the level of granularity is the client level and thus clients with multiple backup policies are represented by the policy with most recent success. It is recommended that this report not be used for multi-policy clients. The client "IsActive" filter allows for those hosts that are not actively being backed up to be omitted. The elapsed time in the report is always between now and the last successful backup. The report is effective in its graphical rankings format placing the clients with longest elapsed time at the top.
Figure: Recovery Point Objective report shows a sample view of the Recovery Point Objective report.
In the example, no backups have been run for nearly 10 hours for all the clients. This means that for the five systems on the report, the best RPO possible would be nearly 10 hours. If you have committed to an 8 hour RPO, then these systems need to be backed up quickly to be able to meet that SLA.
The following are details associated with the Recovery Point Objective report:
The following table shows the filters for Recovery Point Objective report and how you can use these filters to view specific data in the report.
Example of filter usage: You may run the report for specific master servers to view details for the clients backed up by specific master servers.
The following enhancements have been made in the Stored Backup Images on Media report:
You can now click (drill down) the bar for each client and view Recovery Point Objective report for job type, schedule/level type and policy name.
For the Policy filter, the following columns have been added:
Earlier there was a Host filter with Host is Active column. The Host filter has been removed. The Host is Active column is now renamed as Client is Active column and exists under the Client filter. The default value of Client is Active column is Yes.
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