Notification Events

BBS monitors your backup infrastructure and generates notifications for 12 event types across 6 categories:

Backups

Backup Completed — A backup job finished successfully
Backup Failed — A backup job failed (critical)

Restores

Restore Completed — A restore job finished successfully
Restore Failed — A restore job failed

Clients

Client Offline — Agent hasn't sent a heartbeat (auto-resolves when reconnected)
Client Online — Agent reconnected after being offline

Repositories

Check Failed — Repository integrity check found errors
Compact Done — Repository compact completed

Storage

Storage Low — Disk usage exceeds threshold (auto-resolves when freed)
S3 Sync Failed — Offsite S3 sync failed
S3 Sync Done — Offsite S3 sync completed

Schedules

Missed Schedule — A scheduled backup didn't run in the expected window

Push Notifications

BBS uses Apprise to deliver push notifications to 100+ services. Configure push notifications from Settings → Push Notifications.

Screenshot coming soon

Supported Services

BBS includes guided setup forms for the most popular services:

Pushover — Mobile push notifications
Discord — Channel webhooks
Slack — Workspace integrations
Telegram — Bot messages
Email — Direct SMTP delivery via Apprise
ntfy — Self-hosted or ntfy.sh
Custom — Any Apprise-compatible URL (100+ services)

Setting Up a Service

Click Add Service
Select a service type from the dropdown
Fill in the guided form fields
Select which events should trigger notifications for this service
Click Save

Tip: Create multiple services with different event selections. For example, send all failures to Discord for your team, and everything to Pushover for personal mobile alerts.

Email Notifications

BBS can send email alerts to admin users when specific events occur. Configure SMTP settings at Settings → Email Settings, then enable the event toggles for each notification type.

Recommended email alerts: Backup Failed, Client Offline, Storage Low, S3 Sync Failed, and Check Failed.

Web Interface Bell

The notification bell icon in the top navigation shows a badge count of unread notifications. Click it to see recent alerts, or click View All to access the full notifications page where you can manage and resolve alerts.

Smart Deduplication

Failure and warning notifications are deduplicated — if the same event fires repeatedly, the existing notification's count increments instead of creating duplicates. Success events always create fresh notifications.

Auto-Resolve

Some notifications resolve automatically: Client Offline resolves when the agent reconnects, Storage Low resolves when usage drops, Missed Schedule resolves when the next backup runs, and Backup Failed resolves when the next backup succeeds.