Cache not clearing

Support
#1

Hi

My laptop’s hard drive is filling up, so I ran GrandPerspective to see what’s filling it.

Turns out that the duplicacy cache is responsible for 58G worth:

  58G	cache/default

I’m running duplicacy 2.1.0 from GitHub.

I read your docs at Cache usage details, and it sounds like each backup should clear out old cache.

An automatic backup happened just this morning:

Backup for / at revision 147 completed
Files: 1509071 total, 390,914M bytes; 126 new, 212,505K bytes
File chunks: 82123 total, 412,350M bytes; 34 new, 173,013K bytes, 67,721K bytes uploaded
Metadata chunks: 157 total, 778,696K bytes; 41 new, 254,419K bytes, 78,041K bytes uploaded
All chunks: 82280 total, 413,111M bytes; 75 new, 427,433K bytes, 145,763K bytes uploaded
Total running time: 00:08:13
1 file was not included due to access errors
Running script /.duplicacy/scripts/post-backup
Finished duplicacy on  Wed May 30 10:24:11 MDT 2018
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So, backups are running, but cache is not clearing.

What should I do? I need to clear some of this out.

Thanks!

Cache directory clean up clarification
#2

According to the wiki page:

However, if the prune command has been run before (which will leave a the .duplicacy/collection folder in the repository, then the backup command won’t perform any cache cleanup and instead defer that to the prune command.

Do you see this .duplicacy/collection folder? If so then the cache won’t be cleared until a prune operation is done.

You can remove the entire .duplicacy/cache folder anytime and it won’t cause any issues.

#3

I have this exact problem on a Linux server. I also have 2 macs, one with the web-ui, which does prune -all. But cache chunks are never cleaned on the Linux server and other mac. Grows very large over a short period of time.

#4

Do you see the folder .duplicacy/cache/<storage_name>/fossils on your Linux and mac? If so, it means you may have run prune before from there and Duplicacy stopped cleaning up the cache after seeing this folder.

#5

There is a fossils folder, but it’s empty. If I remove it will it start to clean the cache again?

BR
Robert

#6

Yes, that is correct.