Hello,
I’m contacting you because I recently noticed that my scheduled backups with Archivist aren’t all being completed. Especially for the three largest applications: NextCloud, Dodoc, and PeerTube.
When I run a backup of some of these applications independently, it rarely succeeds. It seems to be a disk space issue.
However, I recently increased the capacity of my VPS to 80 GB, and I’m surprised to see it’s already full.
So here are my questions:
- How can I check the available disk space on a VPS?
- Is there a recycle bin on Yunohost that should be emptied?
- Is there a way to run a backup of Yunohost and its applications by immediately sending the archive to the PC from which I connect to the server via SSH?
I’ve been unable to backup my most important applications for a few months now. Thank you in advance for your help.
Guillaume
First of all, you should understand what’s taking so much space on your server using sudo ncdu / -x
Second, you can mount your backup folder on another server like I am doing here Mount /home/yunohost.backup on a remote server - #6 by jarod5001
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Hello and thank you for your reply.
This command is great 
I’ll just point out for anyone who has the same problem as me that you need to install ncdu before running the command:
‘sudo apt install ncdu’
Then the magic command:
‘sudo ncdu / -x’
Well, it seemed to me that the cleanup I did in my NextCloud was still stored in a “trash” folder. The “/home/yunohost.app/nextcloud/data/gheleguen/files_trashbin” folder
contains 21GB.
I’m going to empty trash.
So yes, according to this screenshot, there is indeed a little more than 60GB of storage occupied out of 80GB. So it’s not surprising that I can’t start my NextCloud backup, which is almost 23GB. So I need to figure out how to delete the NextCloud recycle bin.
Thanks for your backup tutorial. But actually, with OVH, I already pay €120/year for 80GB, so I don’t really have the budget for more. I might have an idea: it would be to put a Raspberry Pi at home with a hard drive and a timer that only turns on on the day of the backup. We’ll see.
Thanks already, I know what I need to do to free up space on my server and restart backups.
Have a nice day.
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Hi,
If you want to avoid the same situation in future, you can adjust thrash bin retention in your /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php :
example with deleted files older than 30 days and delete the oldest files if files are less than 30 days but there is not enough space :
'trashbin_retention_obligation' => 'auto, 30',
Idem if you use versioning with versions_retention_obligation parameters
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