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Thursday, 15 October 2020 15:06 CDT

4FootyFans

I have at last located the file which has been growing at an alarming rate over past months and explains why our backup has also been growing.

The file is

/public_html/cli/error_log

and contains 000s of the same entry due to our backup being performed twice daily. It is currently 1.35Gb and started May 2020.

The message is:

[15-Oct-2020 04:16:08 UTC] PHP Warning: preg_match(): Delimiter must not be alphanumeric or backslash in /home/xxxxxx/public_html/administrator/components/com_akeeba/BackupEngine/Filter/Base.php on line 138

Base.php lines 137/138 are:

137 // Normal PCRE
138 if (preg_match($regex, $test))

Kindly advise a fix for this or whether I need to prevent php warnings from being produced.

TIA

Edited by 4FootyFans on 2020-10-15 15:06 CDT

Friday, 16 October 2020 02:46 CDT

nicholas

This error would occur if you have entered a wrong regular expression in a RegEx database or file filter yourself.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Friday, 16 October 2020 03:07 CDT

4FootyFans

Sorry, how would I find the wrong expression or filter?

Do you mean if a filtered exclusion file or directory doesn't exist?

Edited by 4FootyFans on 2020-10-16 03:20 CDT

Friday, 16 October 2020 06:52 CDT

nicholas

No, I am talking about regular expression filters that you have entered yourself. Regular filters do not use regular expressions; they are item lists. The code location you gave me corresponds to a regular expression filter. I can't tell you which filter because the information you gave me doesn't tell me that.

Go to Akeeba Backup.

Select the backup profile you are using. The page reloads.

Scroll all the way down.

There are two buttons. "RegEx Files and Directories Exclusion" and "RegEx Database Tables Exclusion".

One or more of the regular expressions you have entered in either (or both...) of these places is malformed. Namely, it does not have delimiters. If you are not sure what the format should be like just remove them and use the regular filters to select which files, folders and databases to exclude.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!

Sunday, 15 November 2020 20:17 CST

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