Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method, electronic device and computer program product for managing a backup system. The method comprises: determining, based on historical backup information of the backup system in a first time period, at least one temporal feature corresponding to the first time period, the historical backup information indicating a set of numbers of backup jobs executed by the backup system in the first time period; determining, based on the at least one temporal feature, a set of predicted numbers of backup jobs expected to be executed by the backup system in a second time period; and determining a health status of the backup system based on the set of predicted numbers and a set of actual numbers of backup jobs executed actually by the backup system in the second time period. In this way, the health status of the backup system can be determined in time.