Exactly what time is the backup generated?

Operating system

Windows

Joplin version

3.5.12

Desktop version info

Joplin 3.5.12 (prod, win32)

Device: win32, 12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-12650H
Client ID: 19f6ff5c5139454a930341da6f677b02
Sync Version: 3
Profile Version: 49
Keychain Supported: Yes
Alternative instance ID: -

Revision: 449555c

Backup: 1.5.1
Freehand Drawing: 4.2.0
Home Note: 2.1.2
Note Tabs: 1.4.0

Sync target

Dropbox

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What issue do you have?

Greetings:
Does anyone have an idea as to exactly what time the backup is generated? If it is set to "1 hour" does that mean it begins the process at the top of the hour every hour? Or 60 minutes after the setting is made? If it is set to 24 hours ie. daily does that mean it begins the process at 12:00 midnight or 12:01 AM or just 24 hours after the setting is made? It would help to know as I have Task Scheduler running a .bat file via rclone every hour and another once a day to "backup the backup" to another drive and to the cloud. One shouldn't be in the process of backing up or writing the backup to the target when the rclone does its thing. Thanks for any light you can shed on this.

On my system it’s set to 24 hours so I get another backup 24 hours after the last one. I have backups with timestamps like 202602010642, 202602020644 and 202602030646. No idea why the extra 2 minutes gets in there but 24 hours means 24 hours, not any particular time of day. Maybe the 2 minutes is the time it takes to prepare the “temp” file.