Empty directories in backup

[FrancisLeboutte]

In my incremental backups, empty directories (possibly containing empty sub-directories) are created.
Is it possible to avoid this?
Note that the "ignore empty directories" option is ticked.

[cobian]

If this option is ticket, those directories should be deleted (unless we are talking aboiut ftp/sftp backups)

[FrancisLeboutte]

This is not the case. Below is a screenshot of the incremental backups folder list for one of my folders and another of the task properties (most are empty as shown). Thanks for your help.

[cobian]

The something is failing. Permissions perhaps(?) Justa guessing. Running with verbose log should give you the exact error in the log file (not in the log tab).

[FrancisLeboutte]

It seems that empty folders are deleted, but 1st level folders are not.
For example, according to the log
S:\Backups-specifiques\Reflector\2024-04-29\Grappe 2024-04-29 16;28;36\_En-cours\
is deleted
but not
S:\Backups-specifiques\Reflector\2024-04-29\Grappe 2024-04-29 16;28;36\
(which is also empty).

[cobian]

Empty root directories are never deleted, that's correct.

[FrancisLeboutte]

I see. Shouldn't deleting empty root directories be an option? I have a lot of them in the incremental backups that I schedule every half hour.

[cobian]

Will be taking this in cnsideration for some eventual version 3.