backup won't work if old newJoplinBackup.7z file is there

[th-ros]

Hello,
today I recognized that no backups were created if the file newJoplinBackup.7z is still in the backup directory.

My Joplin is running all the time on my Notebook and I made backups every hour on a network drive. Today I recognized the file newJoplinBackup.7z in the backup directory which was many days old an since this date no backups were made anymore.

After some tests I found the solution: I removed the file and everything works fine.

So I think this is a bug and should be solved. I think the old newJoplinBackup.7z was the result of a interuppted backup by a shutdown during the backup was running.

Greeting and thx for the nice plugin, Thomas

[JackGruber]

Sorry for the late response. I can not currently reproduce the behavior.
What are / or were your backup settings?

[th-ros]

My backup settings are these. Drive h:\ is a network drive.

[JackGruber]

Ok, tnx. I try to replicate it with this settings.

[JackGruber]

The behavior that the backup does not run if the newJoplinBackup.7z already exists in the backup directory I could not reproduce. But I have found a other bug during the investigation.
If the file was existing from a privues aborted backup, the newly created backup could then contain old and new backup data.
To prevent this the file is now deleted to the begin.