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savemydb can email you the moment a backup job fails, so you find out before you actually need the backup.

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Setting your notification email

1

Open settings

Go to Settings in the sidebar.
2

Set your notification email

Enter the email address that should receive failure alerts. This defaults to your account’s login email, but you can change it — for example, to a shared team inbox.
3

Save

Click Save. Notifications take effect immediately for any job that fails afterward.

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What triggers a notification

savemydb sends an email when a backup job’s status is failed. Successful backups don’t generate a notification, to keep your inbox focused on what actually needs attention.

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What the email includes

  • The name of the job that failed
  • The specific error message returned
The error message is usually enough to diagnose the issue directly — see Backup Failures for common causes and fixes.

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Not receiving notifications?

  • Confirm a notification email is actually set in Settings — it’s empty by default until you save one
  • Check your spam folder
  • Confirm the job that failed belongs to the same account where you set the notification email