Those are typically shown via a popup and regular job logs. The other is in server log. You have to check.
Combine logs in GUI #1152 is an enhancement request to resolve the weird where-are-the-logs chasing.
If you’re looking and actually getting varying results and messages (all places) from Recreate, that’s odd.
That’s a lot. I hope you increased your blocksize from default 100 KB, or some things may get quite slow.
You can try Profiling level for more info. Sometimes SQL queries are slow for big backups & small blocks.
Starting a live log earlier might catch something. If you want a real file, use log-file=<path> at some kind of log-file-log-level. I suppose you could watch live log at Information and let Profiling make maybe a large file.
Verbose is in between.