Disk Space and Backup Folder

[Mac338]

Hi everyone, I’m currently facing a major problem regarding my Cloudron storage.
I have a VPS with 1 TB of storage and a second 2 TB hard drive dedicated to backups.

My apps actually require about 480 GB of storage. Two days ago, I received a notification that I was running out of space. I checked Cloudron and saw that 800 GB was already in use; a day later, that figure had risen to 1 TB.

Cloudron has also been reporting repeated backup failures for the past week.
However, I have no idea why this is happening.

Where should I start looking?

The /var/backups directory contains several files. Shouldn't that directory be empty if I'm using a separate hard drive specifically for backups?

root@cloudron:/var/backups# dir
alternatives.tar.0        apt.extended_states.2.gz  dpkg.arch.5.gz        dpkg.statoverride.0     dpkg.status.2.gz
alternatives.tar.1.gz     apt.extended_states.3.gz  dpkg.arch.6.gz        dpkg.statoverride.1.gz  dpkg.status.3.gz
alternatives.tar.2.gz     apt.extended_states.4.gz  dpkg.diversions.0     dpkg.statoverride.2.gz  dpkg.status.4.gz
alternatives.tar.3.gz     apt.extended_states.5.gz  dpkg.diversions.1.gz  dpkg.statoverride.3.gz  dpkg.status.5.gz
alternatives.tar.4.gz     dpkg.arch.0               dpkg.diversions.2.gz  dpkg.statoverride.4.gz  dpkg.status.6.gz
alternatives.tar.5.gz     dpkg.arch.1.gz            dpkg.diversions.3.gz  dpkg.statoverride.5.gz  snapshot
alternatives.tar.6.gz     dpkg.arch.2.gz            dpkg.diversions.4.gz  dpkg.statoverride.6.gz
apt.extended_states.0     dpkg.arch.3.gz            dpkg.diversions.5.gz  dpkg.status.0
apt.extended_states.1.gz  dpkg.arch.4.gz            dpkg.diversions.6.gz  dpkg.status.1.gz

please help me

[james]

Hello @mac338 and welcome to the Cloudron forum

Please include the output of the cloudron-support --troubleshoot command.
Also, please share a screenshot of your backup configuration.

The /var/backups folder is also used by Ubuntu itself so it is expected to contain files.
You can run du -hd 1 /var/backups to check the size of that folder. It should not be bigger then ~1-2GB when no Cloudron backups are stored there.

[joseph]

Also, check /var/backups/snapshot (which I see in your output). Maybe it has some partial (failed) backup.

[swheeler78]

I'm having the same issue. How can I clean out the backup folder?

[nebulon]

If /var/backup is not used/setup in Cloudron for backups in your instance anymore, then you can safely delete all files in /var/backup if you want. Other Ubuntu components may put some small files there though over time, but that is probably not disk space relevant after the initial purge.