Disable configuration backup notification

[mephisto]

Hi there,

Is there a way to disable the configuration backup notifications?

Thanks!

[foggy]

Seems there is no way to do this, unless you're using per job notification settings and disable the global ones. I will check though.

[Shestakov]

Hi Mephisto,
You can disable notifications in Global E-Mail Notification Settings. However, there is no specific rule for configuration backups.
Thanks.

[mephisto]

Seems there is no way to do this, unless you're using per job notification settings and disable the global ones. I will check though.

That would turn the configuration prone to errors in my opinion. The reason is that we send the client email reports, but I believe sending reports about configuration backup is excessive.

[mephisto]

Hi Mephisto,
You can disable notifications in Global E-Mail Notification Settings. However, there is no specific rule for configuration backups.
Thanks.

Disabling in global settings will disable all notifications about the VM backups too, right?

[foggy]

The reason is that we send the client email reports, but I believe sending reports about configuration backup is excessive.

I see the case, thanks for elaborating.

[Shestakov]

Unfortunately, yes.
The best what I can advice is to set a rule on your email server to discard notifications about configuration backup if you don`t need any of them.

[mephisto]

Unfortunately, yes.
The best what I can advice is to set a rule on your email server to discard notifications about configuration backup if you don`t need any of them.

I'll do that, thanks for the suggestion. For now I've just set the configuration backups to run less often.

It would be nice to see an standalone option for the configuration backup notifications in the future integrated into Veeam

[nefes]

You can specify empty To: field in global settings and specify per-job To: addresses in the jobs where you need to send notification.

[mephisto]

You can specify empty To: field in global settings and specify per-job To: addresses in the jobs where you need to send notification.

I appreciate the suggestion but I think this is prone to mistakes in the future if someone creates a backup job and doesn't know there is a custom way to set up the alerts for example.

[veremin]

You can use new "save as default" option; this will preserve the specified email settings for all jobs that will be created in future. Thanks.

[m.novelli]

I vote for a flag to disable "Configuration Backup notification" in global settings

Cheers

[kewnev]

I agree, would also like specific email settings available for Configuration Backups. Would like to receive e-mail only on error.

[Shestakov]

Thanks for your feedback!
We will think what can be done in next versions.

[tang]

been quite some time about the vote. still no option to exclude configuration backup notification email?

[vNik]

I would like to have this option too.
The mails are very annoying, i changed the backup to ones per month to "work around", of course not the best solution but better than get every day one of these irrelevant mails.

[DDoster]

I would like to have this option as well. I've changed the config backup to only run on Saturdays to cut down on the "noise". But it would be nice if we could turn off the config backup success emails.

[User56]

Hello,

why is sending veeam this emails?
In my view this emails are useless?
I only need the daily backup job email (green/red)

Configuration Backup for Veeam-BACKUP
Success
4 catalogs processed
Freitag, 30. August 2019 10:00:20
Start time 10:00:00 Data size 15,4 MB
End time 10:00:20 Backup size 2,6 MB
Duration 0:00:19 Compression 5,86x
Details
Catalog Items Size Packed
Configuration catalog 1344 802,9 KB 97,6 KB
Backups catalog 903 6,0 MB 1,9 MB
Sessions catalog 5397 8,6 MB 676,8 KB
Tape catalog 1 156,0 B 136,0 B

[PetrM]

Hello!

This email provides you with the information about the result of configuration backup job run. Please look at these instructions in order to change notification settings or to disable these notifications.
Please let us know if you have some questions.

Thanks!

[wishr]

Hi User56,

I would not recommend disabling these notifications because if the configuration backup is failing and you are not aware of the failures it may lead to the impossibility to restore your backup server configuration in case of disaster, but of course, it's up to you.

Thanks

[PetrM]

Yes, it's always better to be aware of config backup job error so you can just uncheck the box "Notify on success".

[slemay]

I agree that there should be a way to disable the successful notification of a configuration backup. No other product I've ever used does this.

But to partly what you're suggesting that if an error in the backup of the configuration occurred, no one would know - so why wouldn't that still be sent? I think where it makes sense (and we're a rental license model to our customers) - is that only failed backup configurations should be notified - success does not need to be notified. Along with successful physical infrastructure scans or rental licenses auto-renewed successfully. All of these types of nightly emails are annoying - especially when you get tons of sites sending you status reports. I need 1 email per site telling me either failure or success of the backup job. Perhaps a 2nd email if there is an error in another sub-system (like config backup, or the physical scan fails, the license does not renew, etc.).

So I would appreciate a way to suppress the successful backups and or scans for these areas of the product, please?

[wishr]

Hi Shawn,

You may disable the emails for successful configuration backup runs - please see above.

Thanks