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    • yusf
      yusf last edited by girish

      (moved from another thread) I'm experiencing skyrocketing storage size in my encrypted rsync backups

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      • yusf
        yusf last edited by

        Sorry if this is the wrong topic but I'm experiencing skyrocketing storage size in my encrypted rsync backups.

        With a one week retention policy in a pretty new object space I have the following directories:

        2020-11-11-020003-966
        2020-11-12-000007-091
        2020-11-13-000006-427
        2020-11-16-220003-411
        2020-11-17-000005-333
        2020-11-17-000006-335
        2020-11-17-000007-140
        2020-11-17-220002-282
        2020-11-18-000003-162
        2020-11-18-220005-315
        2020-11-19-220008-807
        2020-11-20-000009-294
        2020-11-20-000009-393
        2020-11-20-020005-082
        2020-11-20-020005-201
        2020-11-20-220005-021
        2020-11-21-000008-870
        2020-11-21-000008-943
        2020-11-21-020005-202
        2020-11-21-020005-227
        2020-11-21-220004-705
        2020-11-22-000008-073
        2020-11-22-000008-144
        2020-11-22-020004-333
        2020-11-22-020004-337
        2020-11-22-220004-975
        2020-11-23-000012-605
        2020-11-23-000012-725
        2020-11-23-000012-761
        2020-11-23-020006-389
        2020-11-23-020006-393
        2020-11-23-020006-405
        2020-11-23-095559-372
        2020-11-23-095608-191
        2020-11-23-102014-562
        snapshot
        

        Is there something weird about this or is it due to those longer-lasting backups from older Cloudron versions?

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        • jdaviescoates
          jdaviescoates @yusf last edited by

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

          Is there something weird about this or is it due to those longer-lasting backups from older Cloudron versions?

          I'm not sure, but guessing likely the latter.

          In the end I SSH'd in and deleted a load of old backups - be nicer to be able to do this in the Cloudron UI though.

          I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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          • d19dotca
            d19dotca @yusf last edited by d19dotca

            @yusf I had learned from Girish a little while back that some are kept for particular circumstances. So for example I believe when an app package is updated, it keeps that backup longer than the usual retention policy if I remember correctly, same for Cloudron version changes too. Which is why there are folders that are dated beyond the retention policy. I'm sure Girish can explain better and correct anything I may have gotten wrong, but hopefully that helps explain why you have older ones in there beyond the 1 week retention policy you set.

            Edit: I just realized Girish noted this too above on this thread. He linked to this which gives a few "exceptions" to the retention policies: https://docs.cloudron.io/backups/#retention-clean-up

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            Dustin Dauncey
            www.d19.ca

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            • girish
              girish Staff last edited by

              @yusf What is your backup retention policy?

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              • yusf
                yusf @girish last edited by

                @girish Daily backups. One week retention.

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                • girish
                  girish Staff @yusf last edited by

                  @yusf Are backups failing by any chance. I wonder why there are multiple backups in a day. How often do you create backups? If it's one week backups from 17th Npv are expected. the ones which are slightly older are probably preserved for various reasons. One thing you can do is Backups -> Cleanup backup. Then in the same view, click on logs and it will tell you why each and every backup is preserved. If you paste the log, I can explain in a bit more detail.

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