How to get report of NO backup?

[mcswgn]

Is there a way to get a backup report that would show all clients that have NOT been successfully backed up in x days? Notice that "not successfully backed up" is not the same as "unsuccessful backup". In the view options for backup reports, both "successful backups" and "unsuccessful backups" exclude clients that have had no backups at all! (It's not that they are not there, they just have no info listed for them so they will have an entry that is a single line sandwiched between multiline entries for other cllients and they get completely lost.) But these are exactly the clients I would want to highlight most!

 

Of course the information is there if you scan down the whole list of clients looking for the number of days since last backup, but it's a lot easier to miss something that way. Also, if it has been long enough that the client is not in any of the backup sets, then there is no entry for the client (except for the name) and so if you scan down the column of elapsed days looking for large numbers you will deffinitely miss those with no backup at all.

 

And while I'm at it... Is there any way to view backup reports by storage set? I have storage sets A, B, C that I rotate. It doesn't do much good to rotate sets if all clients aren't in all of the sets. I would like to be able to look at a backup report of specifically, say, storage set A and be able to see when the last time that each of my clients was backed up to that set. Again, the info is there in the standard backup report, but requires a very tedious inspection of each client.

[AmyJ]

You can set Retrospect to always export the Backup Report

 

Special > Preferences > Logging

 

This will export a comprehensive backup report for all sources. The report is tab-delimited and can be imported into any database or spreadsheet program. If a machine has not been backed up it will not have a backup date or backup time - or any other performance data for that matter.