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Backup job "DC-02 · vzdump all VMs" reported failed: [Failed] vzdump all VMs — repository unreachable
Supported software
NAKIVO backup monitoring.
NAKIVO sends a job run report by email after each run. The recipient is set per job, so each job can report to its own address.
- Built in
- A rule for NAKIVO reports comes with every workspace. No agent, no access to the backup server.
- Per job
- The report carries no job name: give each backup its own address, or keep one backup per client.
- 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 NAKIVO 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 NAKIVO, and each result lands on the backup it belongs to.
The full guide, step by step- Go to Settings → General → Email Settings and set up your SMTP server.
- Edit the job and, on its Options step, put the address in "Send job run reports to".
- The report carries no job name: with more than one backup under this client, use the backup's exact address here.
How a report finds its backup.
- Matching
- The built-in rule reads the result of the report but not a job name. With one backup under the client, every report sent to the client address is credited to it. With several, give each job its own address (shown in the job drawer) wherever the product lets you set a recipient per job. Reports that cannot be told apart wait in the Inbox for you to assign.
- 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 NAKIVO 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 NAKIVO backup.
Point its report at the address you get on sign-up. Within a day you will know whether it reported.