Why do I now have lots of backup.config?

OttoFMS
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For each and every offsite backup script, as well as the file I have copied to offsite I have a backup.config cluttering up my folder listings
Is there a necessity to do this, or can it be some kind of preference?

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Hey John,

That is a file that is created by FileMaker, it looks like it contains some metadata about the backups. I can imagine that it would clutter up your folders to have them all over the place. I’m not sure about FileMaker preferences to prevent the creation of the file, I suspect that FileMaker needs the file to get data about the backup after the fact.

-Kyle

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It didn’t used to happen when we just had the one script option…
But then it feels like this is a new FMS thing, just found it in the backup folder

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OttoFMS doesn’t make any changes to the backups that get put on the server (unless you’ve set the schedule to keep 0 backups), so it must be a new FMS thing.

-Kyle

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It started a couple of versions back.

Todd

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Thanks
Going to ask a question about that on the Community. Feels like a debugging thing that got let on, and to someone who likes tidy folders this is nails down backboard!!