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BACKUP EAGLE®

Centralizing and Automating Manual Backup Reports

Centralizing and Automating Manual Backup Reports

Many companies still document backup status, error trends, and audit evidence manually in Excel or using various vendor reports. As complexity increases, this leads to high effort, a lack of transparency, and error-prone processes. BACKUP EAGLE® provides a centralized overview and automated reporting structures for modern backup environments.

  • Reduce reliance on Excel reporting
  • Centrally identify error trends
  • Generate audit evidence faster
  • Consolidate vendor reports

Why Manual Backup Reports Turn Into a Risk in the Long Run

Why Manual Backup Reports Turn Into a Risk in the Long Run

Significant Manual Labour

Backup reports, status updates, and compliance analyses consume time and resources on a daily basis. Information must be regularly updated, consolidated, and verified.

Risk of Errors Due to Manual Processes

Copy-and-paste processes, inconsistent data, and manual consolidations increase the risk of erroneous reports and incomplete documentation.

Lack of Transparency

Disparate vendor reports and fragmented information make it difficult to gain a centralized view of backup quality, error trends, and historical changes.

Increasing Compliance Requirements

Audit, compliance, and management requirements are increasing the pressure for transparent, consistent, and centrally accessible reporting processes.

BACKUP EAGLE®

Many companies still rely on legacy backup reporting processes

Many companies still rely on legacy backup reporting processes

In many companies, backup reports, status overviews, and audit trails are still generated manually. Information is exported from various backup systems, consolidated into Excel files, and regularly updated by hand. Different teams often work with different reporting structures, data sets, or analyses.

As compliance, audit, and management requirements increase, the effort involved grows significantly. Historical data is missing, reports become inconsistent, and errors arise from copy-and-paste processes or manual consolidations.

Especially in hybrid backup environments involving multiple vendors, legacy Excel and reporting structures eventually reach their limits. Ensuring transparency, traceability, and a centralized overview becomes extremely time-consuming.

Typical signs of established backup reporting structures

Typical signs of established backup reporting structures

Backup Reporting in Excel

Many companies still track backup statuses, error trends, and documentation in Excel. What may seem pragmatic at first quickly becomes time-consuming as the environment grows: data must be manually updated, verified, and prepared for management or audits.

Different vendors’ reports

When different backup systems generate their own reports, there is often no centralized view of the entire environment. IT teams must consolidate, compare, and evaluate information from multiple sources instead of being able to assess backup quality at a glance.

Manual Audit Reports

In many companies, audit and compliance documentation is still prepared manually. This takes time, increases the risk of errors, and makes it difficult to trace historical trends or locate specific backup records when they are needed on short notice.

Multiple data sources without historical data

Distributed data sources, fluctuating report statuses, and the lack of a centralized history can quickly lead to inconsistent analyses. This makes it more difficult to reliably assess trends, error patterns, and the actual backup status.

Centralized transparency instead of manual reporting processes

BACKUP EAGLE® consolidates information from various backup systems into a single, centralized platform. This results in standardized dashboards, automated reports, and greater transparency regarding status, error trends, and historical changes.

Central Reporting Overview

A unified view of different backup systems, reports, and status messages—regardless of the manufacturer or infrastructure.

Automated Analyses

No manual reports, no copy-and-paste processes, and consistent reporting structures for IT, management, and audits.

Audit & Compliance Support

Centrally analyze records, documentation, and reports, and make them available more quickly for audits or compliance requirements.

Greater Transparency

Centrally monitor cloud, on-premises, and third-party solutions and consolidate them into a single platform.

Professionalize Backup Reporting Instead of Managing It Manually

Many companies do not start by upgrading their backup software itself, but rather by improving transparency, reporting, and traceability. This is exactly where BACKUP EAGLE® comes in.

Manual Processes
Documentation Excel lists
Status Reports Manual Status Reports
Data Quality Different data sets
Audit & Compliance Significant audit effort
Overview Distributed Information
Central Reporting Platform
Documentation Central Dashboards
Status Reports Automated Reports + Central Dashboard
Data Quality Consistent Transparency
Audit & Compliance Evidence that can be provided quickly
Overview Cross-Vendor Overview

Manual Processes Central Reporting Platform
Documentation Excel lists Central Dashboards
Status Reports Manual Status Reports Automated Reports + Central Dashboard
Data Quality Different data sets Consistent Transparency
Audit & Compliance Significant audit effort Evidence that can be provided quickly
Overview Distributed Information Cross-Vendor Overview

What Our Customers Say

40,000 backups a day—and everything under control.

“We manage 30,000 to 40,000 backups every day using various backup tools. With BACKUP EAGLE, we’ve centralized all our processes and reports, can identify errors at a glance, and are ready for an audit at any time—even for our customers.”

– Ralf Scheerhorn, Senior Consultant, Axians

“For us, the advantage of BACKUP EAGLE is that it provides a collaborative platform for customers, service providers, and for auditing the company and its management.”

– Alex Alexej, Product Owner, Rewe Digital

BACKUP EAGLE® – Here’s What Happens During The Initial Analysis

Creating transparency — without having to rebuild backup systems

1. Understanding Processes

We analyze how backup statuses, reports, and documentation are currently documented, reviewed, and evaluated.

2. Identifying the effort involved

We identify where manual work, a lack of transparency, or inconsistent reporting processes occur.

3. Checking for Automation

We are exploring ways to centralize and automate processes—without replacing existing backup systems.

4. Defining the structure

You’ll receive a detailed assessment to help improve your reports, traceability, and transparency.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Backup Reporting Software

Many companies still create reports manually using Excel or various vendor-specific reporting tools. BACKUP EAGLE® automates key reporting and dashboard processes, thereby reducing manual effort and the potential for errors.

As the number of backup systems, compliance requirements, and audit evidence increases, so does the effort involved in manual reporting processes. Inconsistent data and copy-and-paste processes further increase the risk of errors.

Yes. Many companies use BACKUP EAGLE® to supplement or replace manual Excel reports, status lists, and audit reports with centralized dashboards and automated reports.

BACKUP EAGLE® helps companies centrally analyze reports, documentation, and historical trends and make them available for audits or compliance requirements.

No. BACKUP EAGLE® complements existing backup environments with centralized reporting and monitoring capabilities and supports numerous established vendors and platforms.

Officially supported backup software solutions include:

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud, Arctera Backup Exec, AvePoint, Azure / Microsoft Azure Backup, Cohesity, Commvault (incl. Commvault Metallic), Dell EMC Avamar, Dell EMC NetWorker, Dell EMC PowerProtect Manager / PowerProtect Data Manager, ELOVADE BackupAssist, General Storage Cluster Controller, General Storage MAGS, IBM BRMS, IBM Storage Protect (incl. Online Services), IBM Storage Protect Plus, IBM Storage Defender, N-able MaxBackup, Proxmox Backup Server, Rubrik, SEP sesam, Veeam (Veeam Backup & Replication, Veeam Enterprise Manager, Veeam für Azure, Office 365, etc.), Veritas NetBackup, Arcserve ShadowProtect SPX, RMAN Catalog, Oracle RMAN, Amazon Web Services, Synology Hyper Backup, as well as others via standard interfaces.

In addition, BACKUP EAGLE® offers an open interface (Custom Backup Results Interface) for additional tools.

Yes. Cloud, on-premises, and solutions from different vendors can be monitored and analyzed centrally.

A centralized reporting platform reduces manual effort, improves transparency, ensures consistent analyses, and simplifies audit and compliance processes.

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