GUI adjustment - show date, not x days since.

[BHA_DS]

There may be many places within Veeam where my suggestion could be relevant, but for me I found the following to be frustrating:
Due to staff holidays, mounting tape in drive was missed one day, minor error.
It could have been resolved much quicker if it was more clearly indicated when a tape's "last written" time was. The data I would liked to see is "2025-05-28 (Wed) 01:20:23 (6 days ago)" as opposed to "6 days ago". I can't see anywhere else in the GUI that allows me to see the data I need. With it, I would have been instantly able to see, understand and fix the cause, as opposed to wasting easily 60 minutes yesterday troubleshooting and travelling back and forth between the office where the drive is, and the office where the tapes are stored.

If there is anywhere else within Veeam's GUI that gives a date as "x days ago", I think there is a strong argument to providing the user with more details, as I find "x days ago" to be near useless.

I understand too that a day = a multiple of 24 hours. The time now is 13:00 and if the last backup was at 13:05 on 01/06/25 then right now it would show the backup to be 1 day ago, which is very ambiguous, as I would consider 13:05 on 01/06/2025 to be two days ago.

[david.domask]

Hi BHA_DS, welcome to the forums.

Sorry to hear about the challenge here; the request is clear, but I'm wondering if you can tell a bit more about your tape-out strategy.

Media Sets typically are the answer for this as you can customize the media set name to match your tape rotation scheme and have a quick reference for which tape(s) are in a given media set, but this depends a bit on your tape-out strategy.

If you could elaborate on that a bit more it'd be appreciated.

[BHA_DS]

Hi,
Yes, the answer is obvious when pointed out, that the data required is already visible in the media set. To add clarity, I have added dayoftheweek to our naming strategy, and moved the tape backup time to before midnight, so that the overnight tape backup occurs same day as the backup to Veeam server.