Persistant job tracking

Is there any way or a recommended way of tracking long term jobs? As in keeping them in a table for querying afterwards?

In my case I'm dealing with jobs that might take 1-2 hours and if the user leaves the page during that time I don't have access to the job id returned by the view. I was planning on creating a table for keeping track of jobs.

Any suggestions on this? Or anyone dealt with a similar situation? I would be willing to contribute if this is something that might interest other people.