Publish VBR custom report to sharepoint?
Updated: 21 May 2010 | 3 comments
I am in need of a way to publish a backup report to sharepoint for auditors to review. Is there a way to do this and if so can I automate it?
I am looking for a way to publish a weekly report (the weekly at a glance modified to fit my needs) without having to manually export to a file and import into sharepoint.
I am new to VBR and don't use sharepoint so any direction at all is appreciated.
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From the VBR side of things,
From the VBR side of things, your only choices for kicking the data out are via email or exporting it. I know diddly about SharePoint but I suspect you'll have an easier time with exporting the report somewhere and getting it into SharePoint from there.
Start looking around for a way to get SharePoint to dynamically read a particular location and display the contents. Or heck, if you're exporting the same report each time, get SharePoint to tell you where the file is stored normaly and just keep overwriting it with your new version. =)
Good luck.
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Export to CIFS Share on SharePoint
1. Create an export job in VBR (default location is C:\program files\symantec\veritas backup reporter\server\web\vbr\temp\%username% - not sure this can be changed)
2. Determine CIFS path to sharepoint library (probably something like \\servername\mysite\document_library)
3. Schedule windows script to run on VBR server that copies to or synchonizes the export location with CIFS share.
You SharePoint server ought to have a way to access via CIFS, mine did. As for the contents of said script, shouldn't be too hard to write one up quickly. you could use robocopy or something similar to accomplish that.
Hope that helps
Email Would Probably Work Better Here. But...
I think email would work better. You could have VBR schedule emails that go to Sharepoint. However, it does depend on a couple things. First what version of Exchange are you running? Then what version of Windows Sharepoint Services are you running? Ideally, you should be running Exchange 2003 or better and WSS 3.0 for Sharepoint.
Alternatively, if those things are not set up you cold create a public folder in exchange and have VBR send emails to that address and then create a sharepoint doc library that looks at the OWA url for that public library. You would have access to the emails sent to that pub folder via Sharepoint... But that's kinda janky in my opinion.
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