Plesk doesn't limit number of backup-files

[ChristianIT]

I'm running Plesk v12.0.18 #22 on Ubuntu 12.04.
In the plesk backup-settings I've set the max. number of backup-files to 5.
Actually Plesk doesn't limit the number of backups stored in the local repository.
So unfortunately the partition is running out of space.

What can be done to solve that problem?

 

[UFHH01]

A solution to avoid increasing backups to nowhere, is a cronjob like this:

find /var/lib/psa/dumps -type f -mtime +7 -delete -print​

This will delete all files, which are older than "7" days in the psa/dump - folder Please adjust the command to your needs.


Unfortunatetly the limiting doesn't always work very well. You might investigate the deletion - failures in the dump - log inside the specific backup ( try "locate psadump.log" - over the command line, to find the exact location of each dump - log ).
We all hope, that the incremental backup - solution will soon be implemented ( have a look at the uservoice - suggestion at: http://plesk.uservoice.com ... and probably vote for it! ^^).