View backup history and usage

Each backed-up node has a history of its backup runs, a history of its restores, and a usage report that shows how its backup storage grows. Use them to confirm that backups run on schedule, to follow a restore, and to understand the storage part of your bill.

Before you begin

Wait for the node’s first backup to finish. The history and usage tabs appear in Manage CDP Backups once it has.

See the backup runs

In Manage CDP Backups, click the node and open its Backup Task History tab. Each backup run is listed with Task Name, Task Status, Task Start At (IST), Task End At (IST), and Duration (in seconds). Scheduled and Backup Now runs both show Backup as the Task Name. Task Status reads Finished once a run completes.

A run that ended in an error reads Backup Provisioning Failed in Task Status. To see why a backup failed, open the node’s CDP Backup Details tab: it shows the error and the Backup Failed Date. E2E also emails you when a node’s backup is failing.

See the restores

In Manage CDP Backups, click the node and open its Restore Task History tab. Each restore is listed with the same columns as Backup Task History. Task Status reads Finished once a restore completes. If it reads Failed or Warning, check the restored files and the email E2E sends when the restore ends. See Troubleshooting CDP Backup.

See the backup storage

Open the node’s Backup Usage Report tab. It lists:

• Created At (IST): when the usage was measured.
• CDP Usage: the total size of the node’s backups at that time.
• Increment Value: how much the backups grew or shrank since the entry before.

Date Range shows the last 15 days at first. To look further back, choose other dates, up to today.

Each calendar month, E2E bills CDP Backup storage at the largest size the backups reached that month. For the rates, see E2E’s pricing page.

Download the usage report

To keep the report or work with it in a spreadsheet, choose the Date Range and click CSV. The file has one row for each time usage was measured. Each row holds:

• the node’s name, and its public and private IP addresses
• the disk usage, which is the total backup storage the node uses, and the incremental usage since the row before
• when the row was created and updated (IST), and the report time
• your CRN

Incremental usage is zero when nothing changed since the row before, and negative when the backups shrank.

You can now tell whether a node’s backups run on time and how much storage they use. To cut the storage a node needs, leave out paths you do not need backed up; see Change the backup schedule. If backups are failing, see Troubleshooting CDP Backup.