# Files/folders not being backed up when selected together

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/files-folders-not-being-backed-up-when-selected-together/22627
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 19, 2026, 9:55am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/files-folders-not-being-backed-up-when-selected-together/22627 "2026-08-19T09:55:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Showing post:** 2

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2026, 2:17pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/files-folders-not-being-backed-up-when-selected-together/22627/2 "2026-08-19T14:17:03Z")

</div>

Welcome to the forum @PrettyPony

> [@Issue backing up files and directories in Linux when directory ends in .d](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/issue-backing-up-files-and-directories-in-linux-when-directory-ends-in-d/22601/1):
>
> /etc/ssh/sshd\_config.d/
> 
> /etc/ssh/sshd\_config

was a similar recent topic. I think the problem is in

> <https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/blob/5179b350d9c68b40290a2b18dee9635bb42ee6f7/Duplicati/Library/Main/Controller.cs#L1352-L1355>

It may think that a folder which starts with some other source is a subfolder.  
It might just be a folder which starts with the name of a file, and not a folder.

> [@PrettyPony](#):
>
> The lrcat-data folder is marked as a system folder.

This doesn’t seem to matter. Adding a filter may, as case is coded differently.  
Any of the cases there will wind up saying something like this in Verbose log:

> `2026-08-19 09:41:18 -04 - [Verbose-Duplicati.Library.Main.Controller-RemovingSubfolderSource]: Removing source "C:\backup source\main\main.lrcat-data\" because it is a subfolder or subfile of "C:\backup source\main\main.lrcat"`

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/files-folders-not-being-backed-up-when-selected-together/22627)._