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It's trying to delete the source. That's why yoou never under any circumstances should make a mirror task.

If the mirror option is disabled then this folders won't be touched.

Maybe that versionof outlook coudn't handle a non ANSI encoding... Just guessing.

No, not in this version.

ost files are NOT included as default by the OS in a Volume Shadow Copy, because there is no meaning in backing up it. You can 1- Ignore it 2- Don't use VSC to include it but risking to have problems with other files or 3- Tell the OS to include those files as https://superuser.com/questions/1371504...

The encoding used for the zip file is (if I remember it correctly, unicode 16 bits). If you try to open it with another modern client, do you get the same problem?

Great , SFTP is much superior to FTP in any way.

Yes is you are not using compression.

Try using absolute paths to see if it works. Like

/home/<username>/MyDocsBackup/backup1/ etc.

Or if using relative paths, try omiting the first /

MyDocsBackup/backup1/

That's interesting. This is not a standard message that is created by the program. You should have gotten a .zip file instead. What kind of mail client are you using?