"Limited" Fields in Backup Job Email?

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During a recent Duplicati run (verison 2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18) I noticed a new set of fields in the result email:

MessagesActualLength: 25
WarningsActualLength: 1
ErrorsActualLength: 0
LimitedMessages: [
    2020-05-16 18:00:00 -05 - [Information-GetGpgProgramPath-gpg]: gpg,
    2020-05-16 18:00:00 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.Controller-StartingOperation]: The operation Backup has started,
    2020-05-16 18:00:41 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: List - Started:  (),
    2020-05-16 18:00:42 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: List - Completed:  (1.60 KB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:32 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Started: duplicati-b7bd5afa6d62040ab9bdc5cf79f26984e.dblock.zip.aes (13.57 MB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:36 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Started: duplicati-20200516T230000Z.dlist.zip.aes (4.50 MB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:47 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Completed: duplicati-20200516T230000Z.dlist.zip.aes (4.50 MB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:48 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Completed: duplicati-b7bd5afa6d62040ab9bdc5cf79f26984e.dblock.zip.aes (13.57 MB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:48 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Started: duplicati-i00f324601b604b68bf6f4be23b607313.dindex.zip.aes (32.22 KB),
    2020-05-16 18:01:49 -05 - [Information-Duplicati.Library.Main.BasicResults-BackendEvent]: Backend event: Put - Completed: duplicati-i00f324601b604b68bf6f4be23b607313.dindex.zip.aes (32.22 KB),
...
]
LimitedWarnings: [
    2020-05-16 18:00:00 -05 - [Warning-Duplicati.Library.DynamicLoader.DynamicLoader`1-SoftError]: Failed to load process type Duplicati.Library.Common.IO.VssBackupComponents assembly /Applications/Duplicati.app/Contents/Resources/Duplicati.Library.IO.dll, error message: Could not load type of field 'Duplicati.Library.Common.IO.VssBackupComponents:_vssBackupComponents' (1) due to: Could not load file or assembly 'AlphaVSS.Common, Version=1.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=959d3993561034e3' or one of its dependencies.
]
LimitedErrors: []

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen these “limited” fields before. Have they been there all along and I’ve just never noticed or are they new with the latest Beta release? Do these replace the regular Message/Warning/Error fields or are they indicating something different?

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They have been there as long as I remember. “Limited” just means (as far as I understand) that it may not be a complete list.

3

Interesting, this is the first I’ve noticed it in 2+ years of reading Duplicati emails. Maybe I didn’t have the right circumstances to make them appear?

On a side note, is there a definitive list of all the fields that might end up in the status email or JSON?

4

Not quite all along, but it took a long time to finally be in a Beta due to slow Beta.
Possibly you don’t get a lot of Canary reports, especially not from the 2018 days.

Improve UI for backup logs #3510 went into master Dec 11, 2018, and came out:

2.0.4.6_canary_2018-12-11

Reworked the log UI, thanks @LacunaSoftware

so it missed 2.0.4.5_beta_2018-11-28 and went Beta in 2.0.5.1_beta_2020-01-18

5

That sounds right. I’ve stayed mostly on the beta releases, so I would have picked them up with the January release.

6

Ah, thanks for digging. I switched to a post-2.0.4.5 canary version quite a while ago on all my machines. Back on the beta channel now though (for most).