Question Disk space filling up but not from domains?

[SamH87]

We have a cloud server which seems to have got close to exceeding the disk space available. When we check the domains, there are two and the disc usage is less than 10GB however the storage is advising its nearly full. There are no backups as these are stored remotely, wondering if any one can point us in the right direction to see what's clogging up the storage?
Thanks

 

[Kaspar]

If you want an overview of the dispace usage for each directory install the Diskspace Usage Viewer extension. This lets you easily navigate through the file system and helps find the biggest directories and files.

You can also use the # du -sh /* command trough SSH to get an overview of the diskspace usgae.

 

[mow]

When we check the domains, there are two and the disc usage is less than 10GB however the storage is advising its nearly full. There are no backups as these are stored remotely, wondering if any one can point us in the right direction to see what's clogging up the storage?

Backups are prepared in /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/, and when the remote upload of a backup fails, temporary files remain there and pile up.
plesk only sends a notification when there is eventually not enough space left for the backup to run (this triggers when the free space is less than what the files to be backed up use, although the backup will usually be smaller than that because compression).

 

[SamH87]

Backups are prepared in /var/lib/psa/dumps/domains/, and when the remote upload of a backup fails, temporary files remain there and pile up.
plesk only sends a notification when there is eventually not enough space left for the backup to run (this triggers when the free space is less than what the files to be backed up use, although the backup will usually be smaller than that because compression).

Thanks Mow, could you advise how to delete these from that directory? As I'm unable to delete one that is left in there? Thanks

 

[Bitpalast]

You need to be logged in as "admin", else these reminiscents of backup processes can neither be viewed, nor deleted. However, you can also log in to SSH as root and remove the directory structure of that backup your disk.