Cobian Reflector • Is it possible to make Separated Backups at the top level?

The "Create new separated backups" option has the following description: "If checked, new backup copies will be created using a time stamp."

When I read this, I get the impression that a 'backup copy' would be the backup as a whole, so if run on a regular schedule, you would end up with something like:
This would be consistent with how other backup utilities bundle things up - for example, with Acronis, you'd end up with archive files named Data_full_b1_s1_v1.tib, Data_inc_b2_s1_v1.tib and so on.

What actually happens: it adds timestamps to the names of folders at the lowest depth(s) [Edit: it doesn't always seem to apply to the lowest depth so I'm not sure what the actual behaviour is!], which might look like the following:
This behaviour would make recovery of a backup extremely difficult due to the potentially huge number of folders that would need to be traversed and renamed manually, since Cobian has no automated restore features and doesn't catalog things. I'm actually not sure what the use case is for this kind of option.

Is there a way to make Reflector behave like in the first example? If not, could this be added in a future edition?

Statistics: Posted by BoffinBrain — 11 May 2022, 19:36

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