The Data Aging report displays cumulative information about file aging on the configured file servers or SharePoint Web applications, sorted according to the last access date range. The information lets you quickly and visually assess stale files on your file servers.

A file's age is measured by the elapsed time since the file was last accessed on a file system.

The pie charts in this report display aggregate file statistics for inactive files on the selected file servers or SharePoint Web applications. The pie charts display statistics for the following parameters:

The summary table in this report lists several age intervals. By default, the bucket interval is 0 to 12 months.

You can drill down the summary table to view the detailed report. Depending on the scope of the report, you can click on the name of a file server, share, or SharePoint site to view data aging details for that file server, share, or site.

This report takes input parameters in the following two ways: