Settings & notifications
Every settings page, and how the app tells you what happened.
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General settingsThe notification-area icon, opening the window at sign-in, language and theme, what Ask Genie may see, and the window.Backup defaultsThe values every new job starts with. Changing them never changes a job you already saved.Schedule & power settingsThe service-mode switch, and the wake, catch-up, battery, quiet-hours, performance and after-backup defaults that new jobs start with.Notifications: Windows, email and webhooksWhich events show a Windows notification, quiet hours, and the two ways to hear about a backup when you are away from the PC.Email alertsLet Genie9 send them to your sign-in address, or use your own mail server. What an alert contains, every field, the test email and the limits.WebhooksA signed JSON POST for each backup event, to Slack, Teams, n8n, Zapier or a receiver of your own. The fields, the headers and the rules.Global exclusionsPresets and rules that apply to every job, on top of each job's own, and the short list the engine never backs up.Network & credentials settingsSaved share credentials, drive mappings, the proxy and timeout, and S3 profiles, and where the passwords are kept.Advanced settingsThe background agent, command-line access, logs and the support bundle, the update channel and policy, and the two start-over buttons.About, and updatesVersions, your licence, the device ID, the data folders, the links, Copy diagnostics, and every state of Check for updates.