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Email Notifications in Veeam Endpoint Backup

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I have been pinged by a few people to ask how to set up Veeam Endpoint Backup e-mail notification with a Hotmail / Live mail or outlook.com consumer address. The same goes for gmail or any other consumer e-mail service. So let’s share this with the world.

I’ll provide an example that you can use for your own needs and environment. Only the details will differ based on your provider.

Fill out your e-mail address and the password for your e-mail account.

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Click on”Show SMTP server settings” (see the red arrow) and than fill out the smtp server address. For outlook.com this is smtp-mail.outlook.com. The port to use is 587 (TLS). Leave the checkmark for secure connection enabled. By using port 587 you’re indicating you’ll use TLS not SSL, which is being going away, don’t use that anymore, over port 465. Unless you must with your provider. If you can’t use a secure connection you’ll probably need port 25 nut most consumer free e-mail service providers don’t even offer /allow this.

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Click on the test message button, what about 5 to 10 seconds, hit F9 in your e-mail client and you should see the test e-mail arrive.

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Another smtp servers that will work for Hotmail / Live mail / Outlook.com is smtp.live.com also with port 587. For gmail you can use smtp.gmail.com over port 587. For Yahoo it’s smtp.mail.yahoo.com again, port 587.

Every morning I find a e-mail that tells me about the success of issues with my Veeam Endpoint Backup. Easy.

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The only thing you need to remember is that such consumer accounts are throttled in the number of e-mails you can send per day. So don’t go spamming yourself now. Hope this helps some of you out there!

My Veeam Endpoint Backup Setup

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My main workhouse at home is important to me and for that reason it get’s protected with Veeam Endpoint Backup.

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I don’t like messing around with external disk bays or even the external quick swap bays. Normally they’re in the way, cables lingering etc. But when it comes to backups you need a reliable and easy way to backup to disk and to remove that disk for save keeping. Not just for the occasional location based disaster in your workstation such as a power surge or even a small fire. But also as a protection against ransom ware such a bit locker.

When you use an internal disk you should really make it a dedicated disk. It’s not going to help storing your OS and data backups on the same disk that you are protecting. What I do is I have quick swap bays build in to my rig. Yes, that’s the beauty of building your own. I use the Sharkoon SATA Quickport Intern disk bays for that purpose.

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Both the single or the Multi disk versions will work. It’s cost effective and practical. The Multi edition allows for SSD, HDD and has USB 3.0 connectors for any external disk bay you might still want to attach. Pretty slick. They also have a single 2.5” disk (SATA or SSD bay) if that’s more to your liking.

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I can swap out the disks easily and store them away from my workstation of even off site. It works really well for me. I have the ability to use a SATA SSD if I want that for speed or a normal SATA HDD. The only thing I’d want is multiple jobs and schedules for more flexibility. If, potentially, Veeam Endpoint backup could build the intelligence to detect which of my drives I have in my disk bay and run certain jobs based on that it would be completely fantastic!