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Job statuses

Every backup run ends in exactly one status. The Activity screen groups them into five buckets, and the counts beside each filter add up to the total because every status belongs to one bucket and no other.

In flight

Nothing to act on yet — the run has not produced an outcome.

Status Meaning
pending Queued; the agent has not started it
scanning Working out what changed since the last run
running Reading and uploading data
verifying Checking the integrity of what was just written

Completed

Status Bucket Meaning
completed Success Everything asked for made it into the recovery point
completed_with_errors Warning A source path failed. The rest of the run succeeded
completed_unverified Warning The integrity check on the written snapshot did not pass

Both warning statuses produce a usable backup, and both are shown amber rather than green.

completed_unverified is the one to understand. Every snapshot gets an integrity check after it is written. When that check fails, the agent records completed_unverified along with the reason. The snapshot exists and may well restore perfectly — but a recovery point that could not be verified is not a clean one, and it is not counted as a success.

Did not produce a backup

Status Meaning
failed The run started and something broke on that machine
cancelled Stopped deliberately
interrupted Ended without finishing — for example the machine slept or lost power

Never started

skipped is its own bucket, deliberately separate from failures. A failed run tried and something broke; a skipped run never happened, and for two of the four reasons that was the correct outcome.

Reason Act on it?
device_offline Yes — the machine was not reachable at the scheduled time
agent_not_reporting Yes — the agent has stopped checking in
previous_run_active No — the previous run was still going
backups_paused No — backups were paused deliberately

Counting skipped runs as failures would make a healthy policy read as broken, and would bury the two cases worth acting on inside the same red number.

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