Incremented Number backups change to YYMMDD after reaching 999
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If using the "Incremented Number [1-999]" backup method, once the incremental suffix reaches 999 it will not rollover to 001. Instead it switches, without notice, to creating "YYMMDD_HHMMSS" backups. This is with V3.59 64-bit on Win 10.
I have one psafe3 db that reached the 999 limit (i.e. there were three backups in the directory being used for backup). Let's call them: xxxx_997.ibak, xxxx_998.ibak, xxxx_999.ibak. The next intermediate backup ended up with the YYMMDD naming convention, as well as dozens of subsequent ones before I caught it.
I manually changed the setting back to "Incremented Number [1-999]", but it continued to create YYMMDD backups, and the setting again changed itself to YYMMDD. After futzing around with it, I manually renamed the 997, 998, and 999 numerical backups to: xxxx_001.ibak, xxxx_002.ibak, xxxx_003.ibak. After confirming that the backup setting was on "Incremented Number", the backups and the "Max 3" limitation started working as expected again, with the next backup being xxxx_004.ibak and the xxxx_001.ibak being automatically deleted.
I've been using the incremental backup method for many years. I only keep the last 3 saves, and it has previously rolled over to 001 once reaching 999. This works fine for me as the databases are in the cloud, mirrored locally, and redundantly/regularly backed up by various means. The YYMMDD method is nice, but has no method that I can find to restrict the number of backups being created. So it must be manually managed.
Seems like preventing overwrite on earlier backups once the limit is reached is a feature. Maybe what you can do is make a feature request to allow overwriting previous backups when the limit is reached if using Incremented Number backup.
This has happened to me a few times (I have 1290 entries in the safe currently...) and I find it very annoying. It should roll back to 001.
It is not about protecting earlier backups as the backups xxx_001.ibak, xxx_002.ibak etc. are long gone when you are in the 900s.