<%NUMBERING1%>.<%NUMBERING2%>.<%NUMBERING3%> PRTG Manual: Monitoring Backups

Monitoring your backup software enables you to be sure that your recent backups succeeded. With PRTG you can check the email notifications of various backup jobs. You only need two things for backup monitoring:

1. Configure your backup software to send emails to a dedicated email account.
2. Configure the PRTG IMAP Sensor for backup monitoring.

PRTG will analyze the backup emails for you and set the status of the IMAP sensor accordingly. This way you will see the states of all your backup jobs at a glance.

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Setting up Backup Monitoring

Please refer to our Knowledge Base for a step-by-step tutorial to monitor your backup jobs: Monitoring Backup Solutions via Email

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Knowledge Base: Monitoring Backup Solutions via Email

• https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/47023

Knowledge Base: Can I analyze multipart emails using the PRTG IMAP sensor?

• https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/63532

 

Sensor Technologies—Topics

• Monitoring via SNMP
• Monitoring via WMI
• Monitoring via SSH
• Monitoring Bandwidth via Packet Sniffing
• Monitoring Bandwidth via Flows
• Bandwidth Monitoring Comparison
• Monitoring Quality of Service
• Monitoring Email Round Trip
• Monitoring Backups
• Monitoring Virtual Environments
• Monitoring Databases
• Monitoring Syslogs and SNMP Traps