After trying to start a backup I’m getting an error message ".*xyz.*[^\]" wird analysiert - Nicht abgeschlossener []-Satz..
Obviously it comes from a filter I have set: Exclude files whose names contain: xyz
After deleting the filter I’m getting error “Error while running Desktop auf B2 – Mindestens ein Fehler ist aufgetreten.”
What’s wrong?
Hello @DUser, welcome to the forum!
What version of Duplicati are you using?
if you click on the “Show log …” part of the job menu do you see any log entries?
Here are what log summaries look like:
And here are what a detailed log line looks like (just click on the summary):
Hello, Thanks you for your response.
I’m using 2.0.3.6_canary_2018-04-23
There’s no log entry, instead I’m getting this error message after click on “Show log”: Failed to connect: SQL logic error or missing database no such table: LogData
@kenkendk (the main developer) has this to say about that message:
“That is just because the database is not yet created. Stupid error message, I know, but you can ignore it.”
Would you be able to make a 2nd backup job just pointing to a few local files and saving them to a local folder destination to see if that runs OK? If it doesn’t, then it’s possible there was a problem when Duplicati was installed.
Thanks for your answer.
Now I completely uninstalled my Duplicati installation and installed the new version 2.0.3.7_canary_2018-06-17. But the same error happens again: Error while running _Testfiles von C auf D --> ".*xyz.*[^\]" wird analysiert - Nicht abgeschlossener []-Satz.
Yes, I created a test backup job (see attached export file).There’s no log if this error happens because the job simply doesn’t start at all. There’s only a line in the export file that says: LastErrorMessage": "\".*xyz.*[^\\]\" wird analysiert - Nicht abgeschlossener []-Satz.
It seems there’s a slight confusion and erroneous behaviour in the filter settings:
*xyz*” and save the job, it automatically changes to “Exclude expression”._Testfiles von C auf D-duplicati-config.zip (911 Bytes)
Thanks for the config export. I used it to import a new job and am able to get the same error you are getting.
If you change the exclude filter to be an “Exclude expression” of *xyz* (so in “Edit as text” it looks like -*xyz*) does it do what you want?
Note that I can confirm changing the filters on one of my jobs to be “Exclude files whose name contain” with xyz ( so in “Edit as text” it looks like -[.*xyz.*[^\]]) it also causes the error you are seeing so I have flagged this topic as #bug.
@kenkendk, are you aware of any changes to the Filters that might be causing this issue?
Yes, “Exclude expression” of *xyz* does what I want.
Question regarding the other filter settings:
Don’t you think that the filter behaviours #2 and #3 are bugs also?
It didn’t happen in my tests, but I suspect #2 (“Exclude file” also excludes folders) would be considered a bug based on the the Filter documentation (Filters - Duplicati 2 User’s Manual) stating that “Folder names always end with a slash”.
For #3 (“Exclude file” with wildcards changed to “Exclude express”), I believe that is by design - once you’ve added a wildcard it is considered an expression so has to be parsed differently.
the generated regular expression is invalid. [^] escapes the ] which is then missing - this is correctly diagnosed by the error message. Use [^\] (escape the ) or use [^]] (which is not what you want - looks for no ] at end of name]
Welcome to the forum @holoarts
I think the forum software ate some of your text (it has its own backslash processing) so let me put the whole entry from you inside backticks. I think this is what you meant, and it makes sense to me as well.
the generated regular expression is invalid. [^\] escapes the ] which is then missing - this is correctly diagnosed by the error message. Use [^\\] (escape the \) or use [^\]] (which is not what you want - looks for no ] at end of name]
Here’s Google Translate of the original error message:
". * xyz. * [^ \]" is being analyzed - Unfinished [] sentence.