# Stuck in a loop of freeing up space and filling it up again when rebuilding

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-a-loop-of-freeing-up-space-and-filling-it-up-again-when-rebuilding/96044
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Tags:** server-resources
**Created:** [August 30, 2018, 11:25pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-a-loop-of-freeing-up-space-and-filling-it-up-again-when-rebuilding/96044 "2018-08-30T23:25:04Z")
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### Author: ![tophee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/tophee/32/73406_2.png) [@tophee](https://meta.discourse.org/u/tophee)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2018, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/stuck-in-a-loop-of-freeing-up-space-and-filling-it-up-again-when-rebuilding/96044/13 "2018-08-31T00:37:52Z")

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```plaintext
$ docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
1fba0860cbc3 local_discourse/web_only "/sbin/boot" 5 months ago Up 29 minutes 0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp web_only
aa6b422d88ca local_discourse/data "/sbin/boot" 8 months ago Up 29 minutes data
2940a1603151 local_discourse/mail-receiver "/sbin/boot" 8 months ago Up 29 minutes 0.0.0.0:25->25/tcp mail-receiver

```

> [@sam](#):
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> go nuclear and and start from scratch

What do you mean by that? Will I need a discourse backup? Cause I don’t have one…

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