To quickly determine the results of a local protection plan run, select Local Plans, then the Protection Plans action. Look at the plan Status field in the center pane when the run is complete. After a plan run, the Status line displays one of the following states: OK, Cancelled, Error, or Warnings. For a remote computer protection plan, select the remote computer name under the Remote Computers folder, then the Protection Plans action.


See also: Checkup Report.


To see Result Details, click on the History action, then select the plan run result for which you are interested in viewing. Each plan run result has a Result, Start and Finish time to help you identify which result you may want to view. The Result Details view displays both text and a graph which includes:


  • the data reduction ratio for this run of the plan
  • how many files were protected by the plan
  • how many new and changed files were encountered since the last run of the plan
  • the amount of data processed by the plan
  • the amount of data that was changed since the last run of the plan
  • the amount of data that was stored on the backup disk


On the first plan run, the New files count equals the Files protected count, and the number of Changed files is zero. Also, in this case the Total changed bytes count equals the Total processed bytes count. The green color in the graph depicts the amount of data that is stored on the backup disk during this plan run. The yellow color in the graph depicts the amount of data that the software has reduced or factored during this plan run.


When the View Log link is opened, you will see a log file containing more detail.


The log file includes statistics that require a couple of definitions:


  • "Data reduction" - the ratio of "New and changed" data to the "Total stored" (total amount of data written to the disk for this run of the plan)
  • "CCF Ratio" - the ratio of the "Protected data" (all of the data protected by the plan) to the "Total stored" (total amount of data written to the disk for this run of the plan)


Looking at the Result Details for a plan that has run after some changes have taken place in the data and the plan has been run again, you will see the amount of Total processed data stays about the same. The software scans all of the files selected in the plan but identifies data that is new or changed.


The graph depicts the amount of unchanged data in blue and with the label Unchanged. The new and changed data, which the software reduced or Factored, is shown again in yellow, and the amount of data actually Stored to the disk is shown again in green.