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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

Department Backup Summary Reports provided by ITS will appear similar to the report example below.
The reports will only provide information regarding the Department’s total storage usage for a given month.
Each snapshot is used in calculating annual storage usage and UTBackup Service invoices.

How Departments Can Tabulate Individual Storage Use

Departments needing to track individual storage usage over time can export their own snapshot report. Export is in the form of an excel spreadsheet generate from the UTBackup Web Console:

https://utbackup.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 amount of space used for backup sets for each user on the UTBackup server.
This number is listed in kilobytes by default but can easily be converted to Gigabytes when diveded by 1,048,576 (1 gigabyte = 1,048,576 kilobytes).

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