Removing cps.* files from /tmp harmless?

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I noticed that my server running inside Docker holds 315745 cps.* files in /tmp.

I’d assume that being temporary files they’re harmless to remove, but I’m not completely sure. I’ve a hard time figuring out what these are. Some search in the forum mentions metadata files, but nothing conclusive yet.

Any hints ?

Thanks in advance.

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I guess, urbackup-server-docker/entrypoint.sh at latest · uroni/urbackup-server-docker · GitHub should clean them up?

Normally /tmp is a ramdisk or gets regularily cleaned by systemd.

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Well… when using Portainer on a NAS, I’m not sure the container is recreated. Maybe just halted and restarted, thus not reexecuting the entrypoint ? :-/

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Uh, @uroni I can’t see anything in the entrypoint which explicitely deals with these… care to point at the specific lines involved? Many thx

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Yes, otherwise you’d not have the many files in your container…
This would need to be added, I guess. I just don’t know if this is best practice for Docker containers. Maybe there is a better way to handle /tmp.

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Ok, did it myself. Please test the latest image.