Notification mail not sent on failure Currently we are having problems with our backups, specifically disk space issues.  On investigation it seems the notification mail isn't being sent when the job fails.  This is a weird issue as a notification mail is sent when the job completes successfully.

Any ideas why this would be? We are using SQL Server 2008.
Open your job in the management studio and go to the backup step properties and check whether it looks like this



I suspect "On failure action" Is not setup properly.