# 10-year self-hosted discourse admin asks: why not launcher cleanup as part of rebuild?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-year-self-hosted-discourse-admin-asks-why-not-launcher-cleanup-as-part-of-rebuild/378204
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [August 11, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-year-self-hosted-discourse-admin-asks-why-not-launcher-cleanup-as-part-of-rebuild/378204 "2025-08-11T19:13:10Z")
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### Author: ![tobiaseigen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tobiaseigen/32/539204_2.png) [@tobiaseigen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tobiaseigen)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2025, 8:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/10-year-self-hosted-discourse-admin-asks-why-not-launcher-cleanup-as-part-of-rebuild/378204/2 "2025-08-11T20:40:45Z")

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Great to see you back, Lee! 🌻

I had the same thing happen on my self hosted site just this week. Backups were failing and I let that go for a week or so because I was away and didn’t have access to my laptop. As soon as I got back I ran cleanup and recovered lots of disk space and the backups were able to run again.

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