# Backups keep taking down my forum

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**Category:** Bug\
**Tags:** backups\
**Created:** [February 17, 2024, 5:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-taking-down-my-forum/295698 "2024-02-17T05:00:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 11, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/backups-keep-taking-down-my-forum/295698/8 "2024-03-11T04:13:15Z")

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I found out after making this topic that you need to run a command on the console when you _expand your digital ocean volume_. So effectively I was not using all of my 300gb.

I fixed that and changed nothing else and I had the problem reoccur today. There were 2 unzipped tar files and 3 gzipped ones when my site went down.

I will try the strategy discussed above next.

But what I wanted to say is that **it would be nice to have an indicator on the admin UI that there are failed backups**. Or maybe clear out any \*.tar when triggering a new backup process? In this case, I had 90GB of unzipped backups that can’t be seen from the admin UI. And also no “backup failed” DM from either

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