# Warning: sqlite-journal errors 1400

**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/warning-sqlite-journal-errors-1400/6702
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**Created:** [March 31, 2019, 12:11pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/warning-sqlite-journal-errors-1400/6702 "2019-03-31T12:11:27Z")
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### Author: ![ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/8491ac/32.png) [@ts678](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/ts678)
#### Post date: [April 2, 2019, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/warning-sqlite-journal-errors-1400/6702/2 "2019-04-02T20:20:48Z")

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Hello @w2vy and welcome to the forum!

> [@w2vy](#):
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> I see a number of posts related but no clear answer.

There is no clear answer that I know of as to why it happens, but you’ve possibly seen that it seems to be related to rapidly changing files, and that this might be your backup job’s own SQLite database journal file (check [Local database path](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface/#database-management)) which is temporary and even less worth backing up than a moving database.

Try [–snapshot-policy=on](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#snapshot-policy) if it fits. It’s most likely to fit if on Windows and not running as a “Standard User”.  
This will help in other situations where source files that are then in use would be inaccessible for backup.

If that still has problems, then you could go to screen 3 to add an exclude filter, which might look like this:  
`/home/tom/.config/Duplicati/CZYBFCCRPU.sqlite*` (you can see on its three-dot menu what it did)  
[Filters](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/appendix-d-filters/) gets into the syntax that the `Edit as text` uses, or you could view the [–exclude](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/06-advanced-options/#exclude) in [Commandline](https://duplicati.readthedocs.io/en/latest/03-using-the-graphical-user-interface/#using-the-command-line-tools-from-within-the-graphical-user-interface).

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