No Baertram, it should be working.
Using the current live version of Minion it's backing up the saved variables for me just fine (see attached picture of zip, and yes if you look inside the folder it lists all the var files)
- Are you sure you have saved variables to backup? (It wont backup the folder if its empty)
- What's the path to your SavedVariables folder? (maybe there's a new path Minion doesn't know about to look for?)
- Can you clear/delete your minion.log. Then load up Minion and created a new backup. Maybe it will catch an error for us.
I have not tested Minion using symbolic folder links on windows (fine with osx using ln -s). If you're able to provide a minion.log with the tasks performed in bullet point 3 that should result in an error that may help us.
Thanks!