Where is the backup application log for SQL Server 2008?

Question

I need to check out why a database backup failed in one of our systems.

The log says the following:

BACKUP failed to complete the command BACK

Answer 1

I had the same issue. Backing up the DBs with a PS.Script. The information in the log was not helpful. The cause was a timeout of my powershell script.

A setting of "$server.ConnectionContext.StatementTimeout = 0" was not helping

$ret=Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query $SQLStatement -ServerInstance $ServerName -ErrorAction 'Stop' -QueryTimeOut 600

Setting the QueryTimeOut was doing the trick.