Unable to rebuild discourse due to no space left on device

Installation
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Check to see if you have leftover backups here and delete them:
/var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups/default

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This message is about your local disk. To create a backup you need to have almost twice the size of your database+uploads available to create the backup that gets uploaded to spaces. What do these show you?

 df -h 
 du -hs /var/discourse/shared/*
 du -hs /var/discourse/shared/standalone

show you?

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This is what the commands show:

root@forum:~# df -h 
Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                       7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs                      1.6G  169M  1.5G  11% /run
/dev/disk/by-label/DOROOT  315G  277G   22G  93% /
tmpfs                      7.9G  4.9M  7.9G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                      5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                      7.9G     0  7.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
cgmfs                      100K     0  100K   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
none                       315G  277G   22G  93% /var/lib/docker/aufs/mnt/990236bd36313269b6683947dc21241f4387b2671676e8fdf68de05c0fb3e0f4
shm                        512M   22M  491M   5% /var/lib/docker/containers/4684612f16f4f31589ae8075145bcde0e6e9576a22eaef3952e9d47986999b91/shm
tmpfs                      1.6G     0  1.6G   0% /run/user/0
root@forum:~# du -hs /var/discourse/shared/*
215G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone
root@forum:~# du -hs /var/discourse/shared/standalone
215G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone

If it’s a local storage issue, can I simply add block storage (Volumes) to the DigitcalOcean Droplet?

Thank you!

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There is a topic about that. I would likely move backups to Spaces first.

What about this

   du -hs /var/discourse/shared/*
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I have backups set up on DO Spaces. I thought the backup failed due to not having enough space locally?

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Oops

 du -hs /var/discourse/shared/standalone/*

Oh. Yes, local storage is the problem, but an easy way to solve it is moving backups, but you did that already…

But maybe you can do a

 ./launcher cleanup

And get back space from docker

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This is the output:

root@forum:~# du -hs /var/discourse/shared/standalone/*
124G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups
21M     /var/discourse/shared/standalone/letsencrypt
2.9G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/log
4.0K    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_backup
74G     /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_data
264K    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/postgres_run
5.1G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/redis_data
44K     /var/discourse/shared/standalone/ssl
28K     /var/discourse/shared/standalone/state
16K     /var/discourse/shared/standalone/tmp
9.2G    /var/discourse/shared/standalone/uploads

I ran ./launcher cleanup two days ago and it didn’t solve the backup fail problem. :confused:

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You have too much storage being consumed by your backups. You’ll need to rethink your backup strategy and possibly move backups to an external storage like S3.

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Either you don’t have backups on spaces or you didn’t delete the local backups when you switched to it. You can delete those backups and be in good shape.

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I believe it’s the latter because I do see my backup files on my DO Spaces. What is the best practice to delete the backups? Can I remove the content with the following command?

rm -r /var/discourse/shared/standalone/backups

Thank you!

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That should do the trick!

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That was indeed the cause. Just cleared out the local backup folder and backup works again. Thank you for your help!

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Hooray! With 126Gb free, you should be good for a while!

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