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Why must the destination directory start with “Bak_sd”?

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Why must the destination directory start with “Bak_sd”?

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This root folder (that you can create or not depending on the Destination path layout options of the Backup tab) is needed by the restore procedure in order to know from which source drive a backup archive is coming. The other purpose of this folder is to have a well-defined means to identify the root folder of any backup archive (if you do not use any additional path name in your destination path layout). For example, if you back up one drive into another and vice versa when the second backup starts it will backup also the directory created by the first backup run if there is no way to distinguish it. If you do the backup of the previous backup you will waste useful disk space. GRBackPro can automatically skip all the directories that start with the string “Bak”. If you enable the option Skip standard folder names: Bak*;Tmp;Temp;Recycle*;System Vol* in the Options tab the program will skip these commonly used directory names that do not contain useful data. The folder skip match can b

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This root folder (that you can create or not depending on the Destination path layout options of the Backup tab) is needed by the restore procedure in order to know from which source drive a backup archive is coming. The other purpose of this folder is to have a well-defined means to identify the root folder of any backup archive (if you do not use any additional path name in your destination path layout). For example, if you back up one drive into another and vice versa when the second backup starts it will backup also the directory created by the first backup run if there is no way to distinguish it. If you do the backup of the previous backup you will waste useful destination disk space. GRBackPro can automatically skip all the directories that start with the string “Bak”. If you enable the option Skip standard folder names: Bak*;Tmp;Temp;Recycle*;System Vol* in the Options tab the program will skip these commonly used directory names that do not contain useful data. The folder skip

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