Retries of what? Do you mean you get enough file transfer errors to need higher number-of-retries?
Do you mean you ran Recreate multiple times manually, and this is the first one that said anything?
Did you also do list-broken-files to see what purge-broken-files would do. Can you generally describe?
The wrong “Starting” message for what you’re doing seems a standard bug. My guess on that is here to:
PS: It’s a bit confusing that when you start a “repair” it says “Starting backup”…
While there are tempting status outputs from purge, I think this is purge command not purge-broken-files:
One can compare sources and look for the UpdatePhase lines.
https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/blob/master/Duplicati/Library/Main/Operation/PurgeBrokenFilesHandler.cs (this doesn’t have any such lines)
Yours does do some Logging.Log lines. Does About → Show log → Live → Information show activity?
How big and active are these, and where are they going? At Google Drive, 403 is at 750 GB daily upload (however it also does 403 at other random times for no reason that anybody has been able to figure out).