Step-by-Step: Setting Up SMTP for Backup Alerts in BDRSuite
If you’ve implemented BDRSuite in your environment and think you’re finished, you might be mistaken. Following the implementation of a backup and restore strategy, it’s crucial to implement proper monitoring. Firstly, you want to know the health state of your backup infrastructure and the underlying layer. Secondly, you want to know whether the scheduled backup jobs have succeeded or failed. This is where SMTP, or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, comes into play.