Storage Viewer for Backup operates differently from other products. Refer to Criteria for Determining Licensing Limits to determine the conditions under which backup clients are counted against your license. Typically, a client must be part of a backup policy or it must have been backed up recently, usually in the last 48 hours.

Since Storage Viewer for Backup involves transaction-based data rather than just object metadata, when an object is excluded from data collection, these time-sensitive transactions are retained for historical reporting.

All Other Products, such as Storage Viewer for Capacity and Storage Viewer for Virtual Servers, do not keep historical data when objects are permanently deleted from the reporting database. See Remove Objects from the License Count.