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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. Backup Billing and Usage Reports
  5. Billing and Chargeback Summary

Billing and Chargeback Summary

Explore your data center using customizable report templates or by using parts of your IT infrastructure as entry points. Use Search to find reports, templates and dashboards across the portal.

Use the Reports tab to examine the catalog of templates, dashboards and reports - organized by products along with user-created, and system folders. This report is located here:

Backup Manager > Billing and Usage Reports > Billing & Chargeback Summary

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Tip: To limit the data to a single business unit or department, modify the scope of this report.

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Column aggregations are displayed in green on a separate line with the label Aggregation. Rollover the value to display the aggregation type: Avg., Min., Max., or Sum. Column filtering is not supported on reports with aggregated columns.

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If the scope of this report is for NetBackup-only host groups, three additional columns will be included: Total Dup (GB), Cost Per Dup'd GB, and Dup'd Usage Cost GB, which are set in the Billing and Usage Policies.

To view or modify billing and chargeback items, go to Admin > Chargeback > Billing and Usage.

Table: Billing and Chargeback Summary

Column name

Description

Source

Name of backup source. If the backup source is a known host, host name is displayed with a drilldown to the Host Details report. For other backup sources, the object name is displayed with a drilldown to the Object Details report.

Source Type

Type of backup source, such as datastore, folder, database, virtual machine, and so on.

Backed Up

The amount of storage consumed by the client server during the specified time period.

Click this link to view a Job Summary report.

Cost Per GB

Amount the client is charged per GB of consumption.

GB Usage Cost

Backed Up * Cost per GB = GB Usage Cost

# of Tapes

The # of tapes consumed by the client during the specified time period.

Click this link to view a Job Summary report.

Cost Per Tape

Amount the client is charged per tape consumed.

Total Tape Cost

# of Tapes * Cost per Tape = Total Tape Cost

Total Dup (GB)

Total duplicated storage (NetBackup-only scope)

Cost per Dup'd GB

The charge that has been configured for duplicated storage (NetBackup-only scope)

Dup'd Usage Cost

Total Dup * Cost per Dup'd = Dup'd Usage Cost (NetBackup-only scope)

Total Cost

GB Usage Cost + Total Tape Cost = Total Cost

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