

The report allows you to assess historical growth of backup files and - in case backup files grow too fast - to decide whether to change job configuration to point it to another repository with larger capacity. It takes into account various factors such as retention policies, compression, deduplication, and more to provide an accurate estimate of storage needs. This report is useful for capacity planning purposes. Veeam backup sizing calculator The Veeam Backup Sizing Calculator is a tool that helps organizations estimate the amount of storage required for their backup jobs. Period : defines the time period to analyze in the report.Jobs : defines a list of backup jobs to include in the report.

Infrastructure objects : defines a list of backup repositories to analyze in the report.You can specify the following report parameters: For each repository, the report provides a chart that illustrates the repository capacity and the amount of free space left, as well as information about restore points that were created during the reporting period, including VMs and computers in the backup, backup file type, date and time when the file was created, restore point size and total space used. The Details section displays information on repository space usage.The Top 10 Jobs by Largest Backup File Size table shows 10 jobs that produced the greatest amount of backup data during the reporting period.This report allows you to track how the size of backup files was changing during the specified time period, and identify jobs that consume the greatest amount of space on repositories.
