Issue cleanup dumps folder

[Sellighsphire]

Server operating system version

Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS

Plesk version and microupdate number

Version 18.0.41 Update #1

Hi!

Tonight my backup failed because there wasn't enough space left. I cleaned some space to get my server running again.
I searched for big folders and found
/var/lib/psa/dumps/reseller => 4GB
/var/lib/psa/dumps/clients => 68GB

My server only has 200GB space, so this 70GB dump-files are a big problem.
Any information on how to delete old backup-files doesn't include those files within these folders.
I only have to delete the backup*-files but this only freed up some megabytes.

Is it save to complete empty the /var/lib/psa/dumps folder?
Do I have to keep some files? Do I have to delete some more files/folders?
Is there any CLI script that will help me clean this mess?

Any help is appreciated
Regards
Jens

 

[Martin Dias]

https://support.plesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/12377452798359--How-to-remove-Plesk-backup-files-and-their-logs

 

[Sellighsphire]

Thanks, but I was already reading this, which does not help.
In this article only the files starting with "backup" will be deleted. I already did this, but only some kilobytes where freed up.
I'm looking for the desired folders, or the complete dumps-folder to be cleaned up.

 

[Peter Debik]

Under /var/lib/psa/dumps you will find a /clients directory. In the /clients directory you will find directories named like the client user name. You can safely remove these if you want to delete local backup files of the corresponding client(s). Upon the next local backup, the directory will be re-created. To find the biggest 20 local disk space blockers: # du -a /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/* | sort -n -r | head -n 20

 

[Sellighsphire]

Perfect. Thank you very much.
And how about the resellers folder? Is it also save to delete subfolders?

 

[Peter Debik]

No, because your resellers will complain that you deleted their backups from their accounts.

 

[Sellighsphire]

Okay, though my resellers don't make any backups. Thanks for your help