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[yusf]

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

[yusf]

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

[jdaviescoates]

@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.

[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

[girish]

@yusf What is your backup retention policy?

[yusf]

@girish Daily backups. One week retention.

[girish]

@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.