diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/pull-3305 b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3305
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da34ea95d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/pull-3305
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+Bugfix: Fix possibly missing backup summary of json output in case of error
+
+When using --json output it happened from time to time that the summary output
+was missing in case an error occurred. This has been fixed.
+
+https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/3305
diff --git a/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go b/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
index ef03884ab..29169a018 100644
--- a/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
+++ b/cmd/restic/cmd_backup.go
@@ -60,11 +60,11 @@ Exit status is 3 if some source data could not be read (incomplete snapshot crea
 		t.Go(func() error { term.Run(t.Context(globalOptions.ctx)); return nil })
 
 		err := runBackup(backupOptions, globalOptions, term, args)
-		if err != nil {
-			return err
-		}
 		t.Kill(nil)
-		return t.Wait()
+		if werr := t.Wait(); werr != nil {
+			panic(fmt.Sprintf("term.Run() returned err: %v", err))
+		}
+		return err
 	},
 }