Remove 'big' old and replaced backup

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#1

I have an old backup of my documents share, which is 30 GB since this share used to contain Google-takekouts and other zip-files.

I recently cleared out this share, putting the takeouts together in a separate share with their separate backups, pictures and videos to the photos-share,… I also made a new backup and storage for what remains at the documents-share. It’s only 2,5GB… So quite a significant reduction.

But I’m afraid to delete the old backup storage, in case I ever deleted anything accidentally without knowing it.

Does anyone have any idea on how to check this without checking every revision manually in the CLI?

The backup is made with webUI in Docker, but I also have CLI-version on my econd server.

Any ideas? Cause I’m pretty much out of ideas…

Thanks!

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#2

I’d check it from the CLI before deleting the old storage. Use the old storage read-only if you can, list the revisions/files, and compare the last old revision with the new backup set rather than checking every revision by hand. If the share was reorganised into different backup jobs, also do one test restore of the takeout folder to a temp path, just to confirm you can still get it before removing the big old storage.