Bloated n8n backup

[umnz]

Just got auto-updated to Cloudron 9.0.13 a few weeks ago and my n8n backups have gone absolutely bonkers.

They jumped from a consistent 800MB-1GB range to 6.37GB. File count stayed the same (5877 files), so something else is getting backed up now.

Dug into the container and found /usr is 2.8GB and /app is 2.4GB - that's basically the entire 6GB right there.

Did something change with backup scope in Cloudron 9? Is this a known issue? My backup storage costs just tripled overnight for what looks like redundant system files that shouldn't be in there.

Anyone else seeing this?

[joseph]

@umnz are you able to check the size of the file in your backup storage directly? Does it match what Cloudron is reporting?

[umnz]

@Joseph yes, the size matches.

There appears to be no rhyme or reason to these backup sizes after updating. Nightly is showing a smaller file size now.

The reason it is noticeable is updating an app is taking 15-20 minutes because of the snapshot+upload to Cloudflare R2. 6GB takes a lot longer than 800mb.

[joseph]

@umnz you should download one of the backups from Cloudflare UI and check what is taking so much space inside the tarball.

[umnz]

When I try to download the backup from the Cloudron interface I get this error:

{
  "status": "Conflict",
  "message": "only tgz backups can be downloaded"
}

Is this because they are encrypted? .tar.gz.enc

I will try the Cloudflare UI. But still curious to understand why that error occurs.

[joseph]

@umnz I think that was a bug, it's fixed in 9.0.14 .

[joseph]

@umnz also if you open webterminal of n8n and then cd /app/data and du -hcs . what size do you get?

[umnz]

@joseph said in Bloated n8n backup:

du -hcs .

I get 1.5G.

Be mindful since posting the above I have restarted my Cloudron instance which had been up (for 5 days) since automatically updating to 9.0.13.

Cloudflare won't let me download files over 1G directly so I'll look to update to 9.0.14 now.

[umnz]

Actually I'm going to hold off on updating to 9.0.14 because I don't want to risk it turning into a different problem. I'll wait for 9.0.14 to come out of pre-release or do it this weekend when activity is low.

[umnz]

@joseph said in Bloated n8n backup:

du -hcs .

Sorry, I misread this. I navigated to cd app/data/ and it's 906MB. My other post was running that from app/code