Notification Settings for Backup Policy

You can specify email notification settings for the backup policy. If you enable notification settings, Veeam Backup & Replication will send a daily email report with backup policy statistics to a specified email address. The report contains cumulative statistics for backup job sessions performed for the last 24-hour period on computers to which the backup policy is applied.

Notification Settings for Backup PolicyNOTE

Email reports with backup policy statistics will be sent if you configure global email notification settings in Veeam Backup & Replication. For more information, see the Configuring Global Email Notification Settings section in the Veeam Backup & Replication User Guide.

After you enable notification settings for the backup policy, Veeam Backup & Replication will send reports with the backup policy statistics to email addresses specified in global email notification settings and email addresses specified in the backup policy settings.

To specify notification settings for the backup policy:

  1. Click Advanced at one of the following steps of the wizard:
  • Storage — if you have selected to save backup files in a Veeam backup repository or cloud repository.
  • Local Storage — if you have selected to save backup files on a local storage of a Veeam Agent computer.
  • Shared Folder — if you have selected to save backup files in a network shared folder.
  1. Click the Notifications tab.
  2. Select the Send daily e-mail report to the following recipients check box and specify a recipient’s email address in the field below. You can enter several addresses separated by a semicolon.
  3. In the Send daily summary at field, specify the time when Veeam Backup & Replication must send the email notification for the backup policy. Veeam Backup & Replication will sent the report daily at the specified time.
  4. You can choose to use global notification settings or specify custom notification settings.
  • To receive a typical notification for the backup policy, select Use global notification settings. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will apply to the backup policy global email notification settings specified for the backup server. Veeam Backup & Replication will send the email report containing backup policy statistics at 8:00 AM daily.
  • To configure a custom notification for the backup policy, select Use custom notification settings specified below. You can specify the following notification settings:
  • In the Subject field, specify a notification subject. You can use the following variables in the subject: %Time% (completion time), %JobName%, %JobResult%, %ObjectCount% (number of machines in the backup policy) and %Issues% (number of machines in the backup policy that have been processed with the Warning or Failed status).
  • Select the Notify on success, Notify on warning and Notify on error check boxes to receive email notification if the job completes successfully, completes with a warning or fails.
  1. In the Backup monitoring section, select the Warn me if no backups were created in the last N days check box and specify a number of days. In this case, Veeam Backup & Replication will display a warning message in a backup policy session statistics in case successful backups are not created for a specified number of days.

Notification Settings for Backup Policy