Backup folder in ~/Library

Does anybody know what this backup folders is for ~/Library/Backup?
My best guess would be for time machine. The size of that folder is 36 GB and I backup regularly on a time capsule.

It's nothing to do with Time Machine or any other component of OS X. Some third-party software that you installed created it. I don't know what that might be.

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