Repository server use and client setup

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I have setup a Repository Server in a Docker container on my NAS to act as a central backup resource for 6 ‘client’ servers - all are using Kopia v023.0 on Debian Trixie based servers. I have configured the ‘clients’ to have backup policies, created snapshots and tested restoring files/directories and all seems to work OK. I configured email notifications on the Repository server, these work as expected and send emails whenever a backup task is run. There is a slight problem here though, in that the mails do not specify which ‘client’ server backup has been processed. Given that a lot of my home folder paths (/home/ceejayemm) for example are the same on several of the ‘clients’ it is difficult to know which notification belongs to which client backup. There is nothing in the mail to give any clues.

Ok, I thought, I will setup the email notifications on the ‘client’ servers. I did this using the same information as used on the Repository Server, tested the email profile (which worked) but then I could not save the newly created email profile on the ‘client’ due to:

Error adding notification profile: internal server error: unable to save notification profile: access denied

Is there any way to be able distinguish emails from different servers which contain the ‘same’ information? It doesn’t appear that an email profile can be attached to a specific Policy for example.

On a similar note, on the client servers, I tried change the default snapshot Policy (Snapshot Retention,Files, Compression, etc) settings so that I didn’t need to keep making the same changes to my own custom policies. This too failed with:

Error saving policy: internal server error: unable to set policy: error writing policy manifest: unable to delete previous manifest: access denied

Again how do I make changes to the default policy that will stick on the ‘client’ servers?

All the above occurs whilst using the Web GUI to make the changes for the Repository and ‘client’ servers. I haven’t tried the CLI for any of these tasks as I would prefer not to have to login directly to each server to have make these changes.

Thanks in advance for any help provided

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The client name should be in the subject line and look like this:
Successfully created a snapshot of PATH on CLIENT

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The email subject line I get is:

Successfully created a snapshot of /home/ceejayemm on Kopia_NAS2

Kopia_NAS2 is the repository server name not the ‘client’ name (CMDock-W2)

Chris