CrashPlan Small Business: Email Notification Setup

Olivia McCormack
Olivia McCormack
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Follow the steps below to create an integration between CrashPlan and Backup Radar.

What you'll need:
• Your Backup Radar email address (this can be found in your Backup Radar account under Integration Mailboxes).
• Admin access to a CrashPlan account.

Note: This article captures third-party steps and/or an interface that may have since been updated.

  1. From the Active screen in your CrashPlan account, click Add a new user and select Add Users.
  2. Fill out the First Name, Last Name, and Password fields.
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  3. The email address for this user needs to match your registered Backup Radar email address. Under Email Address, enter one of the following and click Add User:
    1. Your Backup Radar email address.
      Note: The drawback to choosing this option is that you won't be able to read marketing/promotional/account notification emails sent to you from CrashPlan.
    2. A distribution group email address with two recipients:
      • Your Backup Radar email address.
      • The email address to which you would like to receive CrashPlan notifications.
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  4. Go to Account and under Subscription Administrator, click Change.
    Under Account, click Change.png

  5. Under Change subscription administrator to:, select the new user you just created and click Change.
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  6. Go to Devices and choose Active.
  7. Choose a device to view its details.
  8. Click the Action menu and choose Edit.
  9. Select the Reporting tab, make the following changes, and click Save:
    1. Set Delivery time to Morning.
    2. Set Send backup report to every 1 day.
      In the Reporting tab, modify delivery time and cadence.png

For more information on this report, feel free to review the following article from CrashPlan: Your backup status report (Small Business).

What’s next?

Now that you’ve set up your email notifications, you’ll want to activate this backup within Backup Radar. You can find instructions for doing this here: Activation Overview.

Any questions? Reach out to our friendly, neighborhood support team at support@backupradar.com.

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