Is "backups" a reserved word for LC server ?

[Richard Gaskin]

jbv wrote:
 > Strange things happen : on a first on-rev account, I have a directory
 > and sub-sirectory as follows : irev/backups
 > For months, I have a script in irev that writes temporary files in the
 > "backups" sub-folder and then deletes them, and everything works fine.
 >
 > On a second on-rev account, in the same situation, no file at all gets
 > written in "backups". If I change the name of that sub-folder to
 > "DBtemp" or anything else, then everything works normal and the files
 > get written in it.
 >
 > Any idea ?

I don't see "backups" in the Dictionary, but even if it were no keyword 
should affect a string literal.

What are the permissions on the folder?  What do "the result" and 
sysError() tell you when called immediately after the line that fails?

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