Disk usage spike during backup, Discourse crashed hard :-(

Yep, that’s obviously a backup.

Nah, there’s plenty of confirmation: spikes are on a 2 day interval with one exception, and the backup frequency is set to 2 days. Past experience on Meta has shown exactly this failure mode, too.

Yup, this is a solid plan for moving forwards. The first recommendation for people who start to hit the disk space limit on their VPS is off-machine upload storage with the S3 mechanism, though.

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