# Cannot recreate jobs (bugs?)

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cannot-recreate-jobs-bugs/1385
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cannot-recreate-jobs-bugs/1385 "2017-11-13T01:14:07Z")
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### Author: ![JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JonMikelV](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/JonMikelV)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/cannot-recreate-jobs-bugs/1385/3 "2017-11-13T16:04:37Z")

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> [@Haron](#):
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> Very similar problem. I also had another backup that I’d like to start from scratch. Name of the job is “VM”. Important: I have a number of similar jobs with prefixes like “VM X”, “VM Y”, “VM Z”. They are all keep backup files in the same folder!
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> Now when I try to re-create the task and recreate the database I can see only the error message: “Found 212 parse-able files (of 212 files) with different prefixes: VM X, VM Y, VM Z, did you forget to set the backup prefix?”
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> No, I did not forget to set the backup prefix, I imported the same old config.
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> I also tried to change prefix from “VM” to “VM Other”. Same result. It looks like Duplicati just don’t take prefix into account.
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> MacOS, Duplicati 2.0.2.1\_beta\_2017-08-01

Can you log into your destination and manually check for the expected pre-fixed files?

Note that changing the `--prefix` setting on an existing backup can cause as mentioned in this short topic - did you try running a Database Repair on any of these backups?

> [@Changing \`--prefix\` on existing backup](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/changing-prefix-on-existing-backup/485):
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> This isn’t anything critical - I’m just playing around with learning Duplicati and found that changing --prefix on an existing backup caused a Found # files that are missing from the remote storage, and no files with the backup prefix My\_Test , but found the following backup prefixes: duplicati. This wasn’t too unexpected so I went ahead and renamed all my backup files to start with My\_Test instead of duplicati and this time I ended up getting an Found # remote files that are not recorded in lo…

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