• The Horde webmail has been deprecated. Its complete removal is scheduled for April 2025. For details and recommended actions, see the Feature and Deprecation Plan.
  • We’re working on enhancing the Monitoring feature in Plesk, and we could really use your expertise! If you’re open to sharing your experiences with server and website monitoring or providing feedback, we’d love to have a one-hour online meeting with you.

Issue local backups don't get physically deleted

TomBoB

Silver Pleskian
Hi,

CentOS 7.2.1511, Plesk 12.5#48

A client used way more drive space than what would make sense.
Checked his subscription statistics: big local backup from 01-March-2016.
Removed the backup using the backup manager. So far so good.

As I like to double-check changes I do, go to /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/clientx/domains/clientdomain.com
and find all the files still exist.

-----
run a test: I create a new local backup of the domain > the files are created in /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/clientx/domains/clientdomain.com
delete the local backup that was just created, and the files in /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/clientx/domains/clientdomain.com disappear.
-----

Recall another client who had a made a local backup with my help a while back. Check in backup manager, yes, one backup is listed. With his permission, remove the backup. All good.
Go to /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/otherclient/domains/otherclientdomain.com and the files for the backup I just deleted via the Plesk UI are still there. Intererstingly backup files of an additional 3 (!) local backups also still exist - amounting to close to 5GB.

Has anyone else come across this scenario?
Could this be remnants of failed backups?

Checked https://kb.plesk.com/en/6082 to try and figure it out.https://kb.plesk.com/en/6082

Plesk Backup Manager for the domain shows no backups.
under /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/otherclient/.discovered
it shows one backup_certain_date.
under /var/lib/psa/dumps/clients/otherclient/domains/otherclientdomain.com/.discovered
it shows four backups_all_different_dates

Anyone any ideas ? :)
Tom
 
Back
Top