I’ve started having backup failures after a recent update. Looking through the log, it seems that the issue is caused by a lack of disk space: [2023-09-18 20:30:34] EXCEPTION: /var/www/discourse/lib/discourse.rb:138:in `exec': Failed to gzip archive. gzip: /var/www/discourse/public/backups/default/aoda-forum-2023-09-18-202648-v20230913194832.tar.gz: No space left on device However, df -h gives 7.5GB free. I’m backing up to AWS, and user uploads are at 5.9GB. Digging a little deeper, I did find that /var/lib/docker/aufs is using 15GB while /var/discourse uses 12GB. There are no other containers, services, etc on this machine. I have, of course, already run launcher cleanup. In short, my questions are: What is going on with the backups? Is it really disk space related or something else? /var/aufs/ seems to be using a lot of space. Is there a safe way to clean that up?

[image] Adam: However, df -h gives 7.5GB free. I’m backing up to AWS, and user uploads are at 5.9GB You need enough space to hold the uncompressed database and the images.

Did you gzip problem solve itself? There have been adding strange issues around gzip lately.

nope, had was to manually gzip the backup, I let the backup run normally, go into the folder where it saves it, when its about to gzip I stoped the app quickly and gzip the backup and was finally able to change host, now im just having issues with uploading videos, even as small as 40MB (yes I know its not optimized but its inconsistent)

Suddenly having backup failures

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pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman) September 19, 2023, 7:51am 2

You need enough space to hold the uncompressed database and the images.

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