Is it possible to upgrade without backup?

[brunovianna]

Hi

This is more of an usage/howto question. I want to upgrade some apps like nextcloud and funkwhale, but I have a huge amount of data that cannot be backup inside my system. Is there anyway to do a backup without the data, just settings and such? Or even upgrade without backup?

I looked up both in gui and cli tools and couldn’t find such options.

Thanks! This forum has always been very helpful.

My YunoHost server Hardware: Raspberry Pi at home

YunoHost version: 4.2.6.1 (stable)
I have access to my server : Through SSH
Are you in a special context or did you perform some particular tweaking on your YunoHost instance ? : no

[ljf]

Upgrade doesn’t backup “big” data of apps like nextcloud. Typically, the directory /home/yunohost.app is not backuped during upgrade.

Do you mean you have not enough space for just backup the database ?

Could you give information about your error message and logs and how many space/free space you have on your current system

[brunovianna]

I’m sorry, I just assumed it would backup the “big data” and was afraid to start. I’m running the upgrade now and will publish the results when it’s done.

[brunovianna]

So, nextcloud upgraded fine, but not funkwhale. Here is the log:

https://paste.yunohost.org/raw/erukewebar

In the last line, the script tries to rsync funkwhale’s media directory with an internal yunohost funkwhale directory.

rsync -a /var/www/funkwhale/media/ /home/yunohost.app/funkwhale/data/media/

That is not possible in my system, as the /var/www/funkwhale/media/ folder is a symlink to a folder in my external hardrive with about 250Gb of songs. The home directory /home/yunohost.app/funkwhale/data/media/ has only 29Gb available.

[ljf]

I suggest you to use mount --bind instead of symlink.

[Tio]

Am looking for the same option. Invidious has a bug that when it backups up it takes some 100GB of storage. At one point took 1TB. Nuts. Crazy. So I need to delete invidious and install it again in order to upgrade. There is no other way.

[brunovianna]

@ljf I’m not too familiar with mount --bind. My understanding is that is makes the partition folder transparent to the system, but I’ll still have 2 different partitions with not enough space in the /home, Am I right?

And like @Tio says, it does not make sense to backup so much data just for an upgrade. It would take hours.

Does it make sense to open an issue? On GitHub - YunoHost/issues: General issue tracker for the YunoHost project ??