Question Backups/Files on /var/lib/psa/dumps

[pge]

Hey guys,

we have configured the Backup Manager to store everything exclusively to an external storage.
Unfortunately /var/lib/psa/dumps seems to have a lot of files in it (maybe from a cancelled restore or failed backup?), which are using up a lot of space.
How do I safely remove them, without causing any harm to the backup consistency?

Thanks,
P.

 

[pge]

I seem to have been awarded some "let me google that for you" trophy.
Im very well aware of the search and HAVE used it, but in this case nothing suites my problem.

We have remote backups, with local failover configured.
Also there has been a (cancelled) restore of a single file, which seemed to have triggered the copying of a mass of remote backup files to the local storage which now seem to sit there.
I need to clean up the drive and was wondering what would be safe to delete, because i cant make sense of the data i see in aforementioned directory.

 

[Brujo]

perhaps you have allready seen this, but normaly with this knowledgebase entry you should be able to get it solved: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...w-to-remove-Plesk-backup-files-and-their-logs

 

[ItsDan]

perhaps you have allready seen this, but normaly with this knowledgebase entry you should be able to get it solved: https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/...w-to-remove-Plesk-backup-files-and-their-logs

That's a good tutorial for removing the files, is there a way to prevent it from doing this? I have something like 15 plesk servers and several of them have critically high disk usage every few weeks or months. If I don't catch the alert the server stops serving sites until I go in and clean up these files.

 

[Bitpalast]

Be careful when deleting files from your local backup folder(s). If you are the only one using the server and know that you have nothing stored there, it is safe. But if there are more users, some of the files are related to their subscription backups and should not be removed.

 

[mow]

If (and only if) allyour backups are configured to remote storage, then all files in the directory /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/<domainname> itself are leftovers from botched backup runs (when the remote is full, unreachable, whatever, the intermediate files remain on local storage and keep piling up).
Same for subdomains in /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/<domainname>/sites/<sub.domainname>/ and for /databases/ subdirectories. Do not touch the other subdirectories.

 

[carlsson]

Old thread, but I wonder: Why does Plesk use the dumps directory when the backups are stored externally?

(I have all my backup files stored on a cloud solution, but 100 GB of files in the dumps directory)

 

[Sebahat.hadzhi]

Local backups are created temporarily and then transferred to the remote storage. The backups should be removed afterward. If they remain, something is either going wrong or it is not configured properly. Have you observed that behavior right after the creation of the backup copy or did you notice that after some time?

 

[carlsson]

Local backups are created temporarily and then transferred to the remote storage. The backups should be removed afterward. If they remain, something is either going wrong or it is not configured properly. Have you observed that behavior right after the creation of the backup copy or did you notice that after some time?

Thanks for your input. I deleted everything in the Dumps folder and now it seems to work as it should (probably some old remains from failed backup sessions).