What suddenly takes up space?

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My YunoHost server

Hardware: VPS bought online
YunoHost version: 4.3.6.3 stable
I have access to my server : Through SSH

Description of my issue

Looking at my backups I see they increased in size a lot last three days. What happened?

See here: Pasteboard - Uploaded Image

The only thing new thing I did: Last week I attempted to upgrade to bullseye. It was succesful at first, but I put back the snapshot I took before because I ran into some problems. After returning the snapshot it worked just fine. However, this was 8 days ago, not three days.

I did not install new apps. I have nextcloud, ghost and trillium notes installed. Nextcloud stores data on an external drive so that data is not included here. How do I find where all this GBs are from?

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use ncdu

sudo apt install ncdu -y
cd /
sudo ncdu

you’ll find where all this space is

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Looking at the sequence of increase, it would fit if the backups got backed up as well. @jarod5001’s suggestion should point to the culprit!

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Thanks for helping out! It gets curiouser and curiouser. Apparently only 16.2GB is in use. Wonder why those backups are so big then.

sudo ncdu -x / gives me:

    5.3 GiB [##########] /usr                                                                                                                                    
    4.7 GiB [########  ] /var
    4.0 GiB [#######   ]  swapfile
    2.0 GiB [###       ] /opt
   91.5 MiB [          ] /boot
   53.7 MiB [          ] /home
   39.4 MiB [          ] /root
   10.0 MiB [          ] /etc
  376.0 KiB [          ] /.wp-cli
  100.0 KiB [          ] /tmp
e  16.0 KiB [          ] /lost+found
    8.0 KiB [          ] /media
    8.0 KiB [          ] /mnt
e   4.0 KiB [          ] /srv
@   0.0   B [          ]  initrd.img.old
@   0.0   B [          ]  initrd.img
@   0.0   B [          ]  vmlinuz.old
@   0.0   B [          ]  vmlinuz
@   0.0   B [          ]  libx32
@   0.0   B [          ]  lib64
@   0.0   B [          ]  lib32
@   0.0   B [          ]  sbin
@   0.0   B [          ]  lib
@   0.0   B [          ]  bin
>   0.0   B [          ] /sys
>   0.0   B [          ] /run
>   0.0   B [          ] /proc
>   0.0   B [          ] /dev

 Total disk usage:  16.2 GiB  Apparent size:  16.1 GiB  Items: 574894
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And there we have it. The problem solved itself somehow. Maybe it’s a thing with Hetzner where I rent the vps.

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