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Multiple empty differential folders

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
infrastructure

Research direction

No file or test is named. Start by reproducing an overnight Backup run against a remote mount, then inspect the generated differential folders and their contents. Done means determining whether the empty folders containing .nobackup and .noindex are expected, or identifying the behavior that must be corrected.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

I have just set up Backup to use a remote mount and it works, but after one night I took a look at remote mount and saw that it created several folders with names like

/20230515072058-differential-euYPfdOPlBW5bYB

containing only 2 files, .nobackup and .noindex.

Only the oldest contains actual data: is that normal?

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