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Veeam B&R

Send Veeam B&R backup reports to BackupSentinel, step by step.

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Veeam sends one email per job session. The subject starts with [Success], [Warning] or [Failed], and the body names the job, so a single client address covers every job on the server.

Written for Veeam Backup & Replication 11 and 12.

  1. Open the email settings

    In the Veeam console, open the main menu (top left) → Options → E-mail Settings. In version 11 the menu entry is called General Options.

  2. Turn notifications on

    Tick "Enable e-mail notifications" and fill in your SMTP server and the From address. If email notifications already work for you, leave these as they are.

  3. Add the client address

    Add the client address to the To field, next to your own (separate addresses with a semicolon). Keep the default subject, and tick Notify on success, Notify on warning and Notify on failure: a job that only reports failures looks Missing on every good day.

    • Default subject: [%JobResult%] %JobName% (%ObjectCount% machines) %Issues%
    • Keep "Suppress notifications until the last retry" ticked, so a job that succeeds on a retry does not report a failure first.

  4. Optional: only some jobs

    To report selected jobs only, leave the global To field without the client address and edit each job instead: Storage step → Advanced → Notifications tab → "Send e-mail notifications to the following recipients".

  5. Name the backups the same

    In BackupSentinel, create one backup per Veeam job and give it exactly the job's name (capital letters do not matter).

How reports find their backup
The built-in rule reads the job name from the "Backup job:" line of the report, plus the total size and duration. One client address therefore covers all of a client's Veeam jobs, as long as each backup in BackupSentinel has the same name as its Veeam job. A report whose job name matches no backup waits in the Inbox, where you can start monitoring it.
Check it works
Run the job once, or wait for the next scheduled run. Within a minute the report appears under the backup, or in the Inbox when it could not be matched. A product's own "send test email" is not a backup result: expect it in the Inbox, where you can ignore it.

What BackupSentinel does with Veeam B&R reports