When a person or system reports a successful completion of a task which has not actually been completed successfully.
A reflection on the Russian military reporting very minor advances (which were in fact failures) as great successes.
The system is not reporting failed backups as failures. They are Russian successes.
When a person or system reports as having successfully completed a task, however, it has not actually been successful.
The backup failures are not being reported as failures. They are a Russian success.