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Backup job "DC-02 · vzdump all VMs" reported failed: [Failed] vzdump all VMs — repository unreachable
Supported software
Veeam B&R backup monitoring.
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.
- Built in
- A rule for Veeam B&R reports comes with every workspace. No agent, no access to the backup server.
- By job name
- One client address covers every job: each report is matched to its backup by the job name.
- 1 min
- A report shows under its backup within a minute of arriving.
- 15 min
- Between checks for reports that did not arrive. Silence is never read as success.
Point Veeam B&R at your client address.
Every client gets its own email address when you add it. Reports sent or forwarded there are read by the built-in rule for Veeam B&R, and each result lands on the backup it belongs to.
Written for Veeam Backup & Replication 11 and 12.
The full guide, step by step- Open Veeam Backup & Replication → main menu → Options → E-mail Settings.
- Tick "Enable e-mail notifications" and add the client address to the To field. Keep the default subject, and notify on success, warning and failure.
- To report only some jobs, edit the job → Storage → Advanced → Notifications and add the client address there instead.
- Give each backup here the same name as its Veeam job: reports are matched by job name.
How a report finds its backup.
- Matching
- 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.
Then every Veeam B&R job has a status.
- Status
- Each report sets Healthy, Warning or Failed. Failures in a row count as a streak.
- Missing
- No report inside the job’s window and the backup turns Missing, like a failure would.
- Attention
- Failed, missing and warning backups are listed for the team, to acknowledge, snooze or resolve.
- Alerts
- Email, Slack, Microsoft Teams or PagerDuty, and a recovery notice when the next report is OK.
Also read out of the box.
Most MSPs run more than one backup product. They all report into the same list.
Start with one Veeam B&R backup.
Point its report at the address you get on sign-up. Within a day you will know whether it reported.