Mlocate on ubuntu

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I noticed that on my ubuntu xenial 16.04 server that the folder /var/lib/mlocate occasionally gets very large and sometimes fills up the server. It’s apparently a cron job that runs. Is this needed by urbackup? Thanks.

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Hi

That s the database that allow the locate commands to return results very fast
If it s that large it actually fills you drive, you better add some exclusion to /etc/updatedb.conf, maybe you try to index mails or squid proxy files (i guess it s a folder with a lot of small files).

You don’t need to backup this foler, so better add it to your urbackupe xclusion

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thanks, this is actually on the UrBackup server that it is filling up, I’d imagine it has to do with all the backup files. I was just wondering if I disabled it and didn’t use “locate” that it would cause any problems with UrBackup, I’d imagine not.

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if you try to index urbackup data with locate , i guesss that won t do it.
Better to look up the doc for locate and ignore the path.

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Thanks, you just have to edit this file… /etc/updatedb.conf. … and add to PRUNEPATHS whatever you want to exclude

PRUNEPATHS="/tmp /var/spool /media /backups"

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