Storage Consumption Measurement
- Tracking of storage consumption for UTBackup services begins December 1, 2011.
- Consumption is measured by snapshot of use from the top level org for each department.
- Snapshots will be taken at the end of each month.
Usage Reporting
- Monthly storage consumption reports will be emailed to the official billing contact of each top level organization.
- Report format will be an Excel spreadsheet containing Organization name, total number of user accounts, total number of UTBackup Clients and total Archive Size for the org (storage space consumed).
How Bills are Calculated
- The fiscal year for UTBackup billing starts on August 1st and ends on July 31st.
- Storage totals from each monthly snapshot report during a fiscal year are added together, averaged and rounded up to the nearest GB.
- Billing for the months of Aug through the end of July will be issued in early August of every fiscal year.
Billing Example
Departments will receive a Backup Summary Report from ITS. This report will provide information regarding a Department’s total usage. This monthly snapshot of the Department’s total usage is what is tallied and averaged over the time the Department uses the UTBackup Service.
This summary is of the total storage usage of UTBackup for the given department at the top level org.
If this storage usage report needs to be broken down further, an excel spreadsheet can be exported from the UTBackup Web Console:
https://utbackup.its.utexas.edu/
The Spreadsheet generated provides a breakdown of Departmental users (username), clients being used by each user, and Total Archive size.
The Total Archive size is the total backup each user has on the UTBackup server. This number is listed in kilobytes. Billing is presented in gigabytes and rounded up to the nearest gigabyte.