Error during admin backup - now disk is full

[duncan]

I ran an offsite (FTP) "admin backup" tonight, and a few mins later got an email about an automatic support notification. Clicked on the DA ticket, would not open - a bad sign. Logged in with SSH and saw that 100% of my disk space (10GB) was used. Prior to running the backup, it was at 47% (4.7GB) usage.

I immediately started dumping easy files to clear up some temporary room. I made sure all the /backup folders were cleared. I noticed that /usr/local/directadmin/TARGET-IP/ had all the incomplete backups in it, so I dumped that.

However, I am still at 70% capacity. Presumably that means about 2.5GB are hiding somewhere else.

Any ideas where other files may have been saved?

Also, is it normal for the admin backup to create all the files, and then upload them?

Thanks!

 

[zEitEr]

Hello,

you might want to use

du -h --max-depth=1

for Linux

du -h -d 1

for FreeBSD

to find which directory contains how many bytes of data. Start this from the root of your FS (it would be /)

If you've got more then one partition then you might want to use -x option to view more accurate figures within one single partition.

Also, is it normal for the admin backup to create all the files, and then upload them?

Yes, sure. Directadmin creates a backup file on a local FS and then only transfer it to a remote FTP server.