Change Days Since Last Backup reporting to support Database Only Backup and 3rd Party FileStore Backup

[Nick_Hall]

This is a two part idea

Currently if you perform a Database Only backup, the "Number of days since the last server console Backup" in ADMS Console remains the same

There is also no way of informing ADMS Console that the file store has been backed up using a third party tool

This would be improved by

1. Logging two backup times - Database & File Store
2. Providing command-line options for ADMS Console to flag a file store backup eg -FileStoreBackedUp

The ADMS Console display would require two fields

• Number of days since the last database Backup
• Number of days since the last file store Backup

The various backup actions would set one or both times

• ADMS Console Full Backup - Sets Database backup time & File Store backup time
• ADMS Console DB Only Backup - Sets Database backup time - File Store backup time remains the same
• ADMS Console -FileStoreBackedUp - Sets File Store backup time - Database backup time remains the same

There's obviously a lot more to this than I've outlined (such as incremental backups) but this shows the basics

Nick

[RajSchmidt]

We normally do backups via script. I would be happy if that would pop up in the “Number of days”. After all, the script is using the Connectivity.ADMSConsole.exe. Why doesn’t it show up?

[Nick_Hall]

@RajSchmidt 

If you are using VP2024, and only backing up the databases, it doesn't register as a backup

If you want to change the "Number of days..." you have to perform a full backup (DB+FS)

This is the basis of my suggestion

For VP2023 & before, any ADMS backup (whether it is run from a script, directly at the command line, or via the UI) will reset the "Number of days...". If it does not change after a backup, you should make sure your backups are completing correctly

[RajSchmidt]

Good morning @Nick_Hall and a happy new year!

I stand corrected, the number of days shown in the console is reset when doing a backup via script. I had not watched it for a while. Thank you for the hint!