Group backups by Date?

[ggra]

Cobian Reflector is new to me and I've been favorably impressed with it's modern, feature-rich capabilities and polished appearance.

I've been attempting to configure Cobian Reflector to emulate the output of our current backup solution which organizes daily archives/snapshots by creation date. It appears this should be possible using the %DATENOTIME parameter option but I haven't been able to get it to work with either local or network destinations. Perhaps someone can offer some additional insight? Thanks!

Desired output structure:
\\NAS\BACKUPS\20210929\<database_files>
\\NAS\BACKUPS\20210929\<important_files>

\\NAS\BACKUPS\20210930\<database_files>
\\NAS\BACKUPS\20210930\<important_files>

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[cobian]

I would add the MANUAL destination as:

\\NAS\BACKUPS\%FNFORMATDATETIME\

In Options/Advanced/Alternative date-time format just enter yyyyMMdd

This should do it.

[ggra]

Thanks for your response. I've done some additional testing and observed that a 'Manual' Destination physical path must already exist for file backup to actually occur. My results were consistent while testing on unrelated PC/servers and by having CR impersonate local and domain admins. Unsure whether this is by design, a bug, some sort of permissions issue or something else.

The target directory (as defined in 'Manual' Destination) won't be created dynamically at run time if it doesn't already exist, such as:
1. C:\BACKUPS\
2. C:\BACKUPS\20210930 (for 'Manual' Destination C:\BACKUPS\%FNFORMATDATETIME\, where C:\BACKUPS\ already exists)

FWIW, backups to C:\BACKUPS\%FNFORMATDATETIME completed successfully after manually creating a corresponding C:\BACKUPS\20210930 directory in advance.

[cobian]

I'll check this out