Bug #17585

lizard's system disk is almost full

Added by zen 2020-04-02 17:11:15 . Updated 2020-04-10 19:11:20 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
groente
Category:
Infrastructure
Target version:
Start date:
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Sysadmin
Blueprint:

Starter:
Affected tool:
Server
Deliverable for:

Description

Lizard’s system disk is currently only 20G in size and 91% full.

Borg Backup’s cache is using 60% of the disk:

$ sudo du -sh /root/.cache/borg
12G     /root/.cache/borg

We could:

  • increase lizard’s system disk,
  • create a new LVM volume to accommodate Borg’s cache,
  • … or do something else?

Subtasks

Related issues

Blocks Tails - Feature #13242: Core work: Sysadmin (Maintain our already existing services) Confirmed 2017-06-29

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-03 06:38:44

It’s not clear to me whether this 12G cache usage is:

  • expected as part of borg’s normal operation (but then, why didn’t this happen earlier? is it just growing until someone cleans it up manually?)
  • leftovers of backup operations that went wrong and aborted; in which case, perhaps borg failed before it could garbage collect the obsolete subset of its cache, and there are GB of data in there that won’t ever go away unless we delete it manually?

I guess my underlying question is: who’s responsible to garbage collect data in the borg cache directory, to avoid it from growing endlessly? borg itself, or sysadmins?

#2 Updated by intrigeri 2020-04-06 11:58:30

  • blocks Feature #13242: Core work: Sysadmin (Maintain our already existing services) added

#3 Updated by groente 2020-04-06 12:50:07

  • Assignee changed from Sysadmins to groente

#4 Updated by groente 2020-04-10 19:11:20

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 0 to 100

i disabled file caching and removed the existing cache, that should fix it.