Correct use of Admin/Backups

[bleggee]

I tried to run Admin/Backups and entered a folder name of "Desktop" and a filename of "SugarCRM-Backup".
I clicked the "Confirm Settings" button, all was good. So I clicked the "Run Backup" button. About a minute and a half later, I get the message:
Backup successfully stored as Desktop/SugarCRM-Backup (23723756 bytes).
BUT I cannot find the backup file anywhere on my Server (using Locate command on Linux), nor on my local computer. I have searched for a file named "Desktop" and/or "SugarCRM-Backup" ... found nothing.

SO MY QUESTION IS:
Does anybody know how this Backup feature is supposed to work, and where I would look for the output file?

Thanks all.
Brian

[kuske]

The filename in the Backup screen is an absolute filename on the server running sugarcrm.

So in Windows it should be somthing like:
D:\backup\sugarcrm
in Linux something like:
\var\backup\sugarcrm

The filename should be a zip-Filename like "mybackup.zip" so you can open it with any unzipper again.

The apache process (or IIS) must be able to write to this directory.

The case of "desktop" the file should be found in directory .../sugarrrot/desktop/.

In my productive installation I changed the module /modules/Administration/Backups.php to set a default directory and filename to write these backups always in the same way and naming like this:

 ...
$backup_dir = "";
$backup_zip = "";
$run        = "confirm";
$input_disabled = "";
global $mod_strings;
$errors = array();
 
//SET DEFAULTs start
$backup_dir = $_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/backup/";
$backup_zip = str_replace(array(":","/","."),"_",$sugar_config["site_url"])."_".date("Ymd_Hms").".zip";
//SET DFAULTs end
...