If a file with the certificate request already exists, a warning is displayed concerning an existing file. If the user agrees with the overwriting of the file, the original file with certificates (and certificate requests) will be saved as a backup into the file with the suffix *_BACKUP_YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.KEY added to the same path as the original file, where * represents the name of the original file without the suffix and YYYY = year, MM = month, DD = day, HH = hour, SS = second.

The original file with certificates will therefore not be lost through overwriting; it instead will be saved on the disk storage of the user's work station.

If the user does not agree with the overwriting, further generation of the request is not permitted.