SMTP email notifications show a 'success' in the subject line even when there has been a backup failure.

Article:TECH191185  |  Created: 2012-06-18  |  Updated: 2012-08-29  |  Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191185
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Problem



When using Symantec System Recovery, SMTP email notifications report a success in the subject line even when there has been a backup failure. An example of this is shown below:

The subject line of the email message shows: High Priority Success Notification (Info) from Symantec System Recovery on BLUE

The message body of the email message shows:

Description: Error EBAB03F1: The operation was canceled by the user.
Info 6C8F1C2F: A recovery point operation on drive Drive Backup of (C:\) was cancelled by the user.
 Error E7D1001F: Unable to write to file.
  Error E7D1003C: There is not enough space.
   Error EBAB03F1: There is not enough space on the disk.


Solution



This issue is resolved in service pack 3 (10.0.3) for SSR 2011. SP3 is available via LiveUpdate, FileConnect (https://fileconnect.symantec.com/) and here: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH195461.


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Description

SMTP alerts show success in subject line even when backup fails.



Article URL http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH191185


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