Backups accumulating space

[Harsha Suresh]

Dear All, 

I have come across an issue where in the backups have accumulating causing disk space to run out.  Our backups are stored in 

/opt/atlassian/application-data/confluence/backups

is it safe to delete old backups ?  OR is there any pre-work to be done ?

Files here are in the .zip format. 

[Amith Mathur _Appfire_ · Accepted solution]

Hi @Harsha Suresh 

Welcome to Atlassian Community!

Yes, the regular daily backups will fill up the disk space depending upon how large the confluence is. You can delete the old ones which are more than one month old as they may not be required for you to restore those backups unless you are running into any issues.

However, Atlassian has a Production Backup Strategy which you can review and set it up.

The best way is to take the home directory and database dump as a recommended option. 

Thanks,
Amith Mathur
 

[Harsha Suresh]

thanks much for the quick response Amith, Much appreciated. Will go through the production back up strategy, for now doing some rotation as a quick fix.

[repi · Accepted solution]

@Harsha Suresh 

Only the last backup is always interesting.
All others could be deleted if there was no way to back up an error for a longer period of time and thus have a corrupt backup.
You can also move this zip file to another data store.

I have a batch file, which automatically backs up these backups and then deletes them, so that only the last 5 executions remain.

[Harsha Suresh]

thanks much for the response. Since this is on a Linux machine i am planning to set up log rotation on this folder so that i don't store anything over a month.