@girish ah yes, that makes sense. And recent ones are being deleted, yes. Thanks again.

@jdaviescoates you should probably use the cifs provider, since then at least the error message would be more obvious when not mounted

@girish ah alright, was moving some LAMP 7.2 and 7.3 to 7.4., clone does not work in that scenario 😉

This should be fixed in the latest package.

I will probably have to update https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#restore-cloudron with more information like @subven has written since it seems this is not very clear.

@vladimir Can you try this change https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/box/-/commit/bedcd6fccf58830b316318699375bc1f582a5d7a ? The file on Cloudron is /home/yellowtent/box/src/storage/s3.js. Essentially change the timeout from 3000 * 1000 to 0. And also change maxRetries to 10. You don't need to restart anything after the change since the code changes are immediately picked up.

(See also https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3680/backup-issues-with-minio)

For completion sake: https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#restore-email

Adding to this: Maybe it's possible to implement a backup browser via the file browser, at least for the rsync format and even for encrypted backups?

@robi Right, so the issue may be on the storage side. Now that you mention it, my object storage is inaccessible… 😡

@lucidfox rsync + encryption has file path length limitations i.e if your app has a file which has long path (not just the file name, maybe it is some 10 folders deep) the backup will error. The limitations are documented here https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#encryption .

@Robin opened a feature request here to improve this - https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3057/consider-improvements-to-the-backup-experience-to-support-long-filenames-directory-names

@ei8fdb said in Why is my backup drive full?:

I've moved the backup directories from /var/backups/ to my external drive. If I want to restore from those backup directories, do I need the contents of the /var/backups/snapshot directory also?

The snapshot directory is not required for restoring. BUT it's required for the actual the backups to work (so think of it as a working directory for backups). It's important to not remove that directory when doing backups! Since, Cloudron will use hard links from the actual backups to the snapshot directory, it's not really taking up extra space.