A few questions about email notifications and full backups

[mrhcarlin]

Hi,

Apologies in advance if this information is documented - I sadly couldn't find anything in my searches!

1. Are VBO backups similar to forever forward incremental, or is there a periodic full backup that runs?
2. Is it possible to generate and send email notifications of backup jobs using PowerShell?
3. Is it possible to generate and send reports via email using PowerShell?
4. Depending on the answer to the above questions, I'd like the ability to send custom notifications and reports about backup jobs and not use the built-in notifications. I don't want to be notified after every job, but maybe I could create a script to send job summaries on once or twice or a week for example. Is anything like this possible?

Thanks,

Matt

[Polina]

Hi Matt,

1. Technically, it's more like forever forward incremental, but you won't really see any backup chains in repositories - all backup data is stored in JET databases.
2. Yes, you can do it with PowerShell in a similar way as with the UI.
3. If you mean the built-in reports on storage, protected mailboxes and licensing, here's how to generate them. There're no built-in cmdlets for sending those reports via email, but I believe it's still quite possible to set up.
4. Natively, VBO doesn't support any custom scheduling for email notifications.

Thanks!

[mrhcarlin]

Thanks Polina.

One last thing: is there a way to use PowerShell to disable the email settings? There's no "-DisableNotification" parameter on Set-VBOEmailSettings, and Set-VBOEmailSettings -EnableNotification $False (or False) doesn't work either.

Can't see this mentioned here either https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbo36 ... tml?ver=30

[Polina]

Try -EnableEncryption:$False

[mrhcarlin]

Amazing! "-EnableNotification:$False" (to clarify) worked perfectly!

Thanks!