Backup Profiler provides valuable information for backup and disaster recovery planning. Use Backup Profiler to plan for data security on all your Windows and Mac OS servers and computers with a Responder client installed.
Backup Profiler provides summary information for each volume connected to each computer included in the profile. You may select data that has changed within "n" days, providing an accurate method for determining how much backup storage space would be required for daily, weekly, or bimonthly incremental and differential backups.
The report can include all files on the volumes or just file extensions listed in the "BP2ExtList.txt" file, located in the "SolarWinds/SolarWinds LANsurveyor" subdirectory in the All Users documents folder. The included file includes over 6,000 file extensions and the applications used to create the files, but you may replace or edit the file to include only those files you define as critical to your organization. For example, you could choose to only report on files with .doc, .xls, and .dbf extensions.
The report output includes node name, volume name, volume capacity, volume free space, volume used space, volume throughput (GB/hr), number of files changed, space used by changed files, average file size, number of extensions found, minimum backup time, and all Responder client Note Fields.
Create a Backup Profiler Report by clicking on the Backup Profiler toolbar icon or selecting New>Backup Profiler from the Report menu. Once selected, the Backup Profiler Wizard is displayed, allowing you to select the nodes with Responder clients, the number of days to include, and the schedule to run the report.
All selected map objects are automatically selected in the first screen of the wizard. Once you have selected the map objects to include in the report, click Next. Then choose whether you want to profile all files or just files modified within "n" days. Click Next, determine the schedule for running the report, and then click Finish. LANsurveyor will then gather the information from the selected nodes.