Backup Job Failure Follow-up Agent

Backup software reports failures every night, but the report is easy to ignore, and a system can go weeks without a good backup. Each morning this agent reads the backup job results and finds failed or partial jobs. It reads the logs for the cause, such as a full target disk, a locked file or an offline server. For known safe fixes in your runbook, such as rerunning the job, it applies the fix and checks the new result. It also checks file counts, because a job can report success while copying nothing. If a job keeps failing, it opens a ticket with the evidence and the number of days since the last good backup. You approve anything that changes retention or storage. Edge case: a job that reports success but backed up zero files is treated as a failure.