User restore report

Files and emails can represent very sensitive information for end-users. For that reason, information included in backup/restore logs is not exhaustive by default. For example, email restores do not include information such as the subject or sender when they are displayed in the backup log. However, for reporting and controlling purposes, the information of what has been exactly restored, what permissions have been applied, and other information can be useful and necessary for the affected user.

Bacula Enterprise Microsoft 365 Plugin includes an option to generate a restore report in the affected user’s service (Drive or Mailbox). The restore report contains detailed information about the items that have been restored successfully, if any of them had any trouble during the restore, and it also reports the date when the action was performed.

The generation of the report can be enabled/disabled in the bconsole restore session. If enabled, depending on the service, the report can generate an HTML file or an email in the Inbox of the affected user.

The image below shows an example report from a Drive restore session: