Excess backup files

  • Resolved Lethalmiko

    (@lethalmiko)


    2 years, 1 month ago

    I have set a full backup to be done daily and only one backup set retained. I have also set a separate database backup, also daily and only one backup.

    The entire website with the database is around 50GB but I find over 120GB in backup files!!!! How is this possible? I go into the updraft folder and I see zipped files dating back 5 days ago. I had to delete them manually after I found the server 90% full. But even after leaving only files for today, they add up to 113GB, which is more that twice the entire website size. How???

    I have seen similar questions to what I am asking but none of them have helped me and I see that this problem of keeping old files and failing to delete them has happened to other people.

    What is the permanent solution?

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  • Plugin Contributor bcrodua

    (@bcrodua)

    Hi,

    UpdraftPlus backup files sometimes gets retained by default if the backup did not successfully complete.

    To check, can you please send us a copy of the backup log?
    This log can be found in the Existing Backups tab of the UpdraftPlus dashboard.
    If you cannot access the UpdraftPlus dashboard, then you can find the log file in the ‘wp-content/updraft’ directory via FTP or your hosts’ file manager.

    Best Wishes,
    Bryle

    Thread Starter Lethalmiko

    (@lethalmiko)

    @bcrodua after some investigation, it seems the problem arose because a caching plugin consumed too much disc space and Updraft backups were failing to complete as you suggested.

    However, the plugin in that case should not just keep adding incomplete backups forever when this happens. The space it was consuming from incomplete backups was more than twice the size of the website.

    It should be intelligent enough to calculate that the space consumed by the incomplete backups is sufficient for a normal single backup and it should delete them all automatically and then create a single full backup as per settings.

    At the very least, it should throw up warnings in the Admin area about low disc space and failed backups.

    Plugin Support vupdraft

    (@vupdraft)

    Hi,

    Thank you for the suggestion, can you make the suggestion here: https://updraftplus.com/feature-requests/

    This way our development team will formally review it

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