I’ve got a job which is struggling to complete the initial backup. I’ve noticed if you use the ‘Report’ function to check to see why the last attempt failed (right-click on the job and select ‘Report’) it does not retain any of the reports of failed attempts. So even though this job has errored-out 5 times before I’ve got no information about the previous failures.
It seems to me this is inconsistent with how the ‘Report’ function works in normal running. Usually when you open the job report it’ll show you if the job failed 3 times and give a report on each failure. These will make up part of the history of the job with previous successful runs recorded alongside the failures.
For some reason it looks like when an initial job fails the job log isn’t saved in the report.
I have email notifications enabled on this system so I get a report by email.