Checking the dialog now, it appears that you can delete those values in the dialog, and they are removed from the resulting path. You can also edit them. This would allow keeping the same main directory amongst profiles while easily differentiating the subdirectory of each profile as you want. A benefit I see to having them included by default is that if the main directory is defaulting to something, you wouldn't want each profile to use that same default and mix the snapshots there. Automatically giving each new profile its own path protects against this. And for some people, the main directory might be a shared network location used by Back In Time running on multiple hosts or common to multiple users on a host, each with their own profiles. Either of those circumstances could lead to overlapping profile numbers if that were the only automatically-added path segment. I suspect this is the reason. Otherwise, too many users would only learn the hard way that they have to be sure to provide a unique snapshots directory for each profile (and devise a successful strategy for that). This way, it's safe and orderly by default. - Derek On Monday, September 9th, 2024 at 11:17 AM, c.buhtz@posteo.jp <c.buhtz@posteo.jp> wrote:
Hello,
the values "host", "user" and "profile" are not fixed in the settings/manage profiles dialog, but they are always used in the snapshot path.
Does someone has an idea why it is that way? Is there a technical reason we this needs to be done?
Would it hurt, if this fields would just disappear? Ignore backwards compatibility for this question.
Related issues: "Allow customisation of the backup location path" https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1795
"Allow disabling of Host/User/Profile etc nesting" https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1304
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