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Feature request: Job report from set period of time

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Hi,

Pulling out a job report from VBR console takes ever increasingly amount of time, over 5mins on my server at the moment. I guess this is because it includes every run of the job on the report since the day one.
I'd like to have an option for get the report for the last week/month/x amount of days. I usually only need couple of weeks of history and would not like to wait 5mins every time for that.
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Hi, have you checked Backup Job Historical Information report by Veeam ONE?
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I have not. I'd like to check the report from VBR.
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Most likely the report will not appear in VBR as monitoring, management and reporting is performed by Veeam ONE.
Nevertheless your feedback is taken into account.
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I'm fine with a "long" report, if it just would generate faster.
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How much time the report generated in your case?
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Over 5mins
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Doesn't seem that bad, but I'll ask developers if they can speed it up.
How many VMs do you have in your infrastructure?
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Roughly 20 VMs.
The physical server has 2x 4core xeon (although pretty old xeons) and 48gb mem, so resources should not be the problem. I will check disk I/O / performance later, to see if it could cause this.


E: During the report creation mem consumption stays ~25%, cpu usage ~10%, occassionally spiking at 20%, disk queue stays below 0.10, most of the time below 0.05.
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Thanks for the info. How about other reports, do they generate fast enough?
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What other reports?
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If by "other reports" you mean reports from other jobs, it varies. For example, 2 weeks ago I created a new job, it will produces a report instantly.
Running a report on a job that has been running ~year, will take again over 5mins.
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I meant reports besides Backup Job Historical Information report. Curious if you find them working fast enough.
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Shestakov wrote: Nov 12, 2018 3:04 pm Doesn't seem that bad, but I'll ask developers if they can speed it up.
How many VMs do you have in your infrastructure?
It takes ages because it pulls out every session from the database and puts it inside a beautiful html file. It would be awesome if it would go faster, but what about to define the time where i want the report to be generated.

Click on the Button -> Dropdown Menu appears -> "Full Report" or "Specific Time" -> Specific Time -> From XX.XX.XXXX to XX.XX.XXXX -> "Generate"

That would be awesome. Most of the time my customers don't need a full report. Just the last few days or weeks. In a beautiful format which can be send per e-Mail.

This way the data which needs to be pulled out of the database would be significantly less because it just needs fewer data to generate the data.

One customer waits about 15-20 minutes to have generated the report for one specific job. In that time the shell is not useable (which is also not sooooo good).


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Hi Maurice,
It takes ages because it pulls out every session from the database and puts it inside a beautiful html file.
Could you elaborate which reports takes too long(with numbers)? By the way, what product version are you at? We made big improvements in latest releases.
It would be awesome if it would go faster, but what about to define the time where i want the report to be generated.
You can leverage report scheduling mechanism.
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Shestakov wrote: Nov 15, 2018 3:46 pm I meant reports besides Backup Job Historical Information report. Curious if you find them working fast enough.
Please provide me step-by-step instructions for this one, since I dont know how to get any other than job report from a specific job.
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It's in Veeam ONE, you go to Reporter and in Veeam Backup Monitoring report pack find the report.
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Hi, I dont have Veeam One. This is a problem with backup & replication.
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Shestakov wrote: Nov 16, 2018 6:27 pm Hi Maurice,

Could you elaborate which reports takes too long(with numbers)? By the way, what product version are you at? We made big improvements in latest releases.

You can leverage report scheduling mechanism.
Hi Shestakov,

it's about the reports of Backup Jobs and for a job which runs for years now it takes about 10 to 15 minutes to generate the html report (because it pulls out of the db every session since 54 weeks ago). In this time the GUI is not useable and i need to open a new one to go on working.

The customer does not have Veeam One. So i have to work with what i have.


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10-15 minutes is not instant, but not that long, especially if you set interval = 54 weeks. Such duration is normal for some jobs, so it's good to know exact report names.
How many backup servers, jobs and VMs are present in the reports?
The customer does not have Veeam One. So i have to work with what i have.
And what product version you are at?
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I think there's actually option to show only x number of sessions in the backup report, but it does not seem to be working.
Tried setting options -> history -> show only last [5] sessions, but backup report still shows all the sessions.
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Shestakov wrote: Feb 12, 2019 3:37 pm 10-15 minutes is not instant, but not that long, especially if you set interval = 54 weeks. Such duration is normal for some jobs, so it's good to know exact report names.
How many backup servers, jobs and VMs are present in the reports?

And what product version you are at?
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It's not that long, but there is no hint how long it would take, etc. The GUI just goes "Not Responding" and thats it. Many customers of ours are confused by it and don't know if it's generating or just not working anymore. Why not showing a window like "Generating Report. Please Wait... Estimated Time Remaining: x minutes". Having an option where i can set the time window for that report would still be awesome, too. Sometimes i just care for a specific time window and not for the session report 54 weeks ago.

hyvokar wrote: Feb 12, 2019 3:41 pm I think there's actually option to show only x number of sessions in the backup report, but it does not seem to be working.
Tried setting options -> history -> show only last [5] sessions, but backup report still shows all the sessions.
This option just limits the sessions shown in the GUI. It has nothing to do with the Report Generation itself.


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It's not that long, but there is no hint how long it would take, etc. The GUI just goes "Not Responding" and thats it. Many customers of ours are confused by it and don't know if it's generating or just not working anymore. Why not showing a window like "Generating Report. Please Wait... Estimated Time Remaining: x minutes". Having an option where i can set the time window for that report would still be awesome, too. Sometimes i just care for a specific time window and not for the session report 54 weeks ago.
It shouldn't go to "not responding", but show "loading". If you see "not responding", please contact the support team. "Estimated time" makes sense as well as more friendly message than just "loading", we will take it into account. Thanks!
By the way, what product version are you at?
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Hi!
Is there any update on this?
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Hi,
reporting is still operated by Veeam ONE. However from the time of your first post Veeam introduced community edition licensing which provides basic capabilities in free product editions. So you can check the mentioned Veeam ONE reports in the free product version now.
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