# Possible backup bugs
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [February 23, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847 "2017-02-23T19:15:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dmitry_Krasnoperov)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/1 "2017-02-23T19:15:38Z")
**Short story**
Backup files takes space on HDD but doesn’t shown in Backup section of Admin UI.
**Long story**
I do have DO plan that gives me 40GB total.
Now I have only 2.2 GB free spaces.
/var/discource takes
```
21.2GiB [##########] /shared
3.8MiB [] /.git
172.0KiB [] /image
108.0KiB [] /templates
24.0KiB [] /samples
20.0KiB [] launcher
16.0KiB [] discourse-setup
12.0KiB [] /containers
12.0KiB [] README.md
12.0KiB [] /scripts
4.0KiB [] /cids
4.0KiB [] /bin
4.0KiB [] Vagrantfile
4.0KiB [] .gitignore
```
Then /var/discourse/shared/standalone
```
11.4GiB [##########] /backups
5.7GiB [####] /uploads
2.5GiB [##] /postgres_data
867.4MiB [] /postgres_data_old
736.4MiB [] /log
70.6MiB [] /redis_data
164.0KiB [] /postgres_run
28.0KiB [] /state
4.0KiB [] /postgres_backup
```
Then
/var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default ( **one without GZ** )
```
5.8GiB [##########] da-stereo-2017-02-23-033658-v20170215151505.tar
5.7GiB [#########] da-stereo-2017-02-20-033130-v20170215151505.tar.gz
```
I have following configuration:
Backup: enabled
Maximum backups: 1
##PROBLEM
Only one backup visible in Admin UI
I may have several “invisible” backup files that eats all the free space.
---
### Author:  [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dmitry_Krasnoperov)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:20pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/2 "2017-02-23T19:20:19Z")
I use magic that removes all backup (visible and invisible)
rm -f /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default/\*
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/3 "2017-02-23T19:22:51Z")
> [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](#):
>
> I may have several “invisible” backup files that eats all the free space.
You don’t because as you see you have 11GiB of backups, and since each is a little more than 5GB that only hold 2 backups.
As to having that one backup with the `gz` end, that’s strange are you running the latest version of Discourse?
It’s possible that during the backup process you ran out of space and it got in this bad state, I recommend getting a bigger disk since your forum is very big.
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### Author:  [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dmitry_Krasnoperov)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/4 "2017-02-23T19:24:34Z")
Yes, NOW it’s only one invisible.
But I was in bad situation with 502 problem for a day due invisible backup files.
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### Author:  [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Dmitry_Krasnoperov)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/5 "2017-02-23T19:25:59Z")
v1.8.0.beta5 +53 version
My forum has
127,9 k messages
and 770 users
It’s not too much I think 🙂
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/6 "2017-02-23T19:29:23Z")
> [@Dmitry\_Krasnoperov](#):
>
> My forum has
> 127,9 k messages
> and 770 users
>
> It’s not too much I think 🙂
You host 5.7GiB of static files, and that’s a lot.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2017, 3:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/possible-backup-bugs/57847/7 "2017-07-29T15:33:57Z")