I’ve enabled “Automatic backup” for Bitwarden: every night at 2:00 a.m. When I look at the files for a given day, I can see that more than one TAR archive is created—one every 5 minutes until 3:00 a.m.
root@syncloud:/data/platform/backup# ls -altr bitwarden-2026-1024*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2427 Oct 24 02:02 bitwarden-2026-1024-020222.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2425 Oct 24 02:08 bitwarden-2026-1024-020800.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2425 Oct 24 02:13 bitwarden-2026-1024-021302.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2424 Oct 24 02:18 bitwarden-2026-1024-021804.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2425 Oct 24 02:23 bitwarden-2026-1024-022306.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2424 Oct 24 02:28 bitwarden-2026-1024-022808.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2424 Oct 24 02:33 bitwarden-2026-1024-023311.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2425 Oct 24 02:38 bitwarden-2026-1024-023813.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2425 Oct 24 02:43 bitwarden-2026-1024-024315.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2424 Oct 24 02:48 bitwarden-2026-1024-024817.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2422 Oct 24 02:53 bitwarden-2026-1024-025319.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2423 Oct 24 02:58 bitwarden-2026-1024-025821.tar.gz
All other apps create exactly one backup at 2:00 a.m.
root@syncloud:/data/platform/backup# ls -altr nextcloud-2026-1024*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52387875 Oct 24 02:02 nextcloud-2026-1024-020223.tar.gz
root@syncloud:/data/platform/backup# ls -altr paperless-2026-1024*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18578372 Oct 24 02:02 paperless-2026-1024-020240.tar.gz
Is this “works as designed” and special for Bitwarden 