Yestreday I manually initated a delete on half the backups as well as changed retention policy and frequency
Tonight we had an out of space incident, becuase of a mis mounted fs
This morning,i noticed that a lot of the backup that we planned on removing were marked as removed from urbackup UI.
But the files are still present on disk.
The operation should have shrunk the backup from 2.2T to 1.1T, but disk usage didnt changed at all
I dont think it s possible to get more verbosity, in cleanup commands you can’t pass a debug parameter.
So i dont know why it fails.
Please advise, i tried a few things:
As root, with urbackup server stoped :
urbackupsrv remove-unknown
2017-06-15 11:08:30: Going to remove all unknown files and directories in the urbackup storage directory. Waiting 20 seconds…
2017-06-15 11:08:50: Shutting down all database instances…
2017-06-15 11:08:50: Opening urbackup server database…
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 1660 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 83017 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_files.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 1156 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_link_journal.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 34037 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_links.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 788 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_settings.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 1660 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 788 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_settings.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: SQLite: recovered 83017 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_files.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:08:50: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots…
Backupfolder not set
2017-06-15 11:08:50: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.
2017-06-15 11:08:50: Cleaning up 0 percent
2017-06-15 11:08:50: ERROR: Error cleaning up.
urbackupsrv cleanup -a 1500G
2017-06-15 11:09:20: Shutting down all database instances…
2017-06-15 11:09:20: Opening urbackup server database…
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 1660 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 83017 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_files.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 1156 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_link_journal.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 34037 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_links.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 788 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_settings.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 1660 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 788 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_settings.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: SQLite: recovered 83017 frames from WAL file /var/urbackup/backup_server_files.db-wal code: 283
2017-06-15 11:09:20: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots…
Backupfolder not set
2017-06-15 11:09:20: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.
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As root with upbackup server started
urbackupsrv remove-unknown
2017-06-15 11:13:49: Going to remove all unknown files and directories in the urbackup storage directory. Waiting 20 seconds…
2017-06-15 11:14:09: Shutting down all database instances…
2017-06-15 11:14:09: Opening urbackup server database…
2017-06-15 11:14:09: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots…
Backupfolder not set
2017-06-15 11:14:09: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.
2017-06-15 11:14:09: Cleaning up 0 percent
2017-06-15 11:14:09: ERROR: Error cleaning up.
urbackupsrv cleanup -a 1500G
2017-06-15 11:14:11: Shutting down all database instances…
2017-06-15 11:14:11: Opening urbackup server database…
2017-06-15 11:14:11: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots…
Backupfolder not set
2017-06-15 11:14:11: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.