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How to set up Email notifications in SqlBak

To receive notifications about your backup jobs (e.g., when a job fails, succeeds, or runs longer than expected), follow these steps:

1. Set up a Notification Channel in the “Notifications” page:

  • Go to the “Notifications” page and click “Add chanel” and select Email as the notification channel:
Add email notification channel SqlBak
  • In the “New Email Notification Channel” pop-up window, enter the email addresses you want to notify, separated by commas.
Add email notification channel

2. Open the backup job settings and toggle on the Notifications option. Add the notification types you want:

    • Add Success Notification – get notified when the backup job succeeds.

    • Add Failure Notification – get notified if the backup job fails.

    • Add Too Long Notification – get notified if the job runs longer than expected.

Add notification from backup job SqlBak

3. After choosing a notification type, you’ll be prompted to select a notification channel. Available options:

    • Email

    • Slack

If you haven’t set up a channel yet, you can create a new one using the Add New Channel button.

Select notification channel SqlBak

4. Once you’ve selected the channel, it will appear in your backup job settings. You can set the notification frequency (for example, send no more than once every 5 minutes).

Email notification settings in backup job SqlBak