Feature Request: Add Retention Points and Backup Plan Variables to VBR Job Notification Emails

[BhushanM]

Feature Request: Add Retention Points and Backup Plan Variables to VBR Job Notification Emails

Hello Veeam R&D Team,

We would like to submit a feature request for **Veeam Backup & Replication (VBR)** regarding the default job notification email.

### Current Limitation

The default VBR job success notification email does not provide the option to include:

* **Retention Points** configured for the backup job.
* **Client Backup Plan** (or a custom backup plan identifier associated with the job).

Based on guidance from Veeam Technical Support, we understand that these fields are currently not supported in the native notification template and would require a custom PowerShell solution or Veeam ONE reporting.

### Feature Request

We request the ability to include the following variables in the default VBR job notification email:

1. **Retention Points**

* Display the configured retention policy (for example, restore points retained by the backup job).

2. **Backup Plan**

* Display a backup opted by the client.

### Business Requirement

These details are important for our operations team because they:

* Provide complete backup information in a single notification email.
* Help operations teams quickly verify that the correct retention policy is applied.
* Improve visibility into the backup plan without requiring additional reports or PowerShell scripts.
* Reduce manual effort and simplify daily backup monitoring.
* Enable easier auditing and compliance verification.

### Suggested Implementation

It would be beneficial if these values could be exposed as additional notification variables that administrators can optionally include in the email subject and/or body, similar to the existing notification variables.

Thank you for considering this enhancement. We believe this feature would benefit many organizations by making backup notification emails more informative and reducing the need for custom scripting.

Kind regards,
Bhushan Mahajan

[david.domask]

Hi Bhushan, welcome to the forums.

Understood on the request, but I do think that Veeam One is probably a better place for these sorts of details.

Can you clarify though, when you write "Backup Plan", what are you referring to? Can you maybe link to the option in the User Guide on what you want to see?

The Job Notification Emails are more intended to be about giving you a quick glance at the operational status and how the jobs ran, configuration information can get pretty dense depending on what features are enabled (e.g., transaction log backups) so a proper report probably is more suitable.