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.

#3

Hello and welcome :slight_smile:

I think the crux of the issue is:

in case I ever deleted anything accidentally without knowing it.

and

without checking every revision

are in direct conflict with one another. We do the backups, and keep the revisions (regardless of their storage consumption) for those cases when we realise (maybe months or years later) that we’re missing something, and hope we can get it back.

My personal story here is that I deleted my entire digital music collection long ago, because Spotify and the like launched. Why would I need my own music files anymore :smirk: Years later (!!!) I decided I would switch back to local music and realised it was all long gone. Luckily these types of files never change, and my retention policy is pretty long so I could perform a restore :slight_smile: