Knowledge Base

Setting up E-mail notifications on the backup process

This article applies to:

• Acronis True Image Home 2011

Introduction

You can make the product notify you on the backup process via E-mail.

The E-mail Notifications option is available on the Notifications tab of Disk Backup Options or File Backup Options:

See also:

• Acronis True Image Home 2011: Disk backup options
• Acronis True Image Home 2011: File backup options

Solution

To specify the e-mail settings:

• Select the Send e-mail notifications about the operation state check box:

  

  • Enter the e-mail address in the E-mail address field. You can enter several e-mail addresses in a semicolon-delimited format.
  • Enter the outgoing mail server (SMTP) in the Outgoing mail server (SMTP) field.
  • Set the port of the outgoing mail server. By default the port is set to 25.
  • Enter the user name in the User name field. Even if your SMTP server does not require authentication, you will still need to enter your username and password.
  • Enter the password in the Password field. Even if your SMTP server does not require authentication, you will still need to enter your username and password.
  • To check whether your settings are correct, click the Send test message button.

    (!) Acronis True Image Home here acts as an E-mail client, otherwise it will not be able to send notifications. Think of it as Microsoft Outlook, which cannot send an E-mail without your E-mail account credentials.

    To send an e-mail message, any Acronis product needs some SMTP server credentials to send the request to this SMTP server to send an E-mail message. Acronis itself is not providing service of the SMTP server. (Neither does Microsoft Outlook, for example).

• Additional notification settings:

  

  • To send a notification concerning process completion, select the Send notification upon operation's successful completion check box.
  • To send a notification concerning process failure, select the Send notification upon operation failure check box.
  • To send a notification with operation messages, select the Send notification when user interaction is required check box.
  • To send a notification with full log of operations, select the Add full log to the notification check box.

Subjects of Acronis True Image Home 2011 e-mail notifications look like:

• Upon operation's successful completion: <task name> Task completed successfully;
• When user interaction is required: Acronis True Image Home Notification from <machine name>;
• Upon operation failure: <task name> Task execution failed.

More information

See also Acronis True Image Home 2011.