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The Storage consumption report displays the backup data size in storage, its growth, and trends to help administrators to monitor and manage the storage consumption. This report is not available to default storage customers. If you are a BYOS storage customer and want to enable this report, contact the IBM Software Support.

The report is updated once a week and only available to the IBM® Storage Protect for Cloud Administrator and the Application Administrators of IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Microsoft™ 365. For the Multi-Geo subscription, only the IBM Storage Protect for Cloud Administrators can view this report.

Note: This report does not support the trial subscription using BYOS, and the report does not include the index file size, which takes about 1% to 1.5% of your total data size.

You can choose whether to display the report with the retention data included by turning on or off the Include Retention Data option. If you deselect the Include Retention Data option, the report will not include the backup data size that has been deleted by retention jobs. However, the data deleted by other deletion jobs, such as deletion jobs for the Data Subject Access Requests feature and the Manually Delete Backup Data feature, will still be included.

Note: If you have configured a retention period that is less than 1 year, the data deleted by the day unit retention jobs will always be included in the Storage Consumption Report.

In the Dashboard > Storage Overview section, you can view and download the storage consumption information of each service type in all your storages or only the legacy or current storage. Click Download Report on the upper-right corner of this section to download and save the storage overview data in the XLSX file.

The Usage History section at the bottom of this page displays the storage growth history in the line chart for the last 6 months. You can click the arrow () button to go to the Usage tab for more details.