/home/backup filling up every 10 mins with tmp dirs

RichBos · Post by **RichBos** » Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:49 pm

Hi, we are having space issues on our server with /home/backup filling up with large dirs/files placed there every ten minutes. I'm thinking this must be linked to a cron job with some other issue but aren't sure what to disable (if anything). The files are in directories named as follows -

tmp.AR96CVUh84 tmp.e8nYCMGBsN tmp.eXBdmJuW5K tmp.liaYcGpvfr tmp.rVE6OpBT6o
tmp.D1yxkbBSeZ tmp.eoDCxrIJrR tmp.LBwoJ1fJTG tmp.Mcy8S25kti

- inside the directories are 'pam' 'vesta' and 'web' sub directories.

Any advice appreciated on how to rectify this.

Thank you.
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Govo · Post by **Govo** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 12:13 pm

Experiencing the same issue, just create a cron job to remove them.

cd /backup rm-r -f tmp*

zshen · Post by **zshen** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 1:46 pm

Was/is there any fix for this? My backup seems to be in a constant loop. tar is constantly running and making backups over and over again. All backups are being stored in a tmp. folder. Deleting the files isn't really a fix. This doesn't fix tar from constantly running and the backups aren't available in VestaCP for restoration.

Thanks in advance!

Post by **tjebbeke** » Wed Aug 10, 2016 1:27 pm

You can try to clear the /usr/local/vesta/data/queue/backup.pipe file.

donat · Post by **donat** » Fri May 29, 2020 6:22 am

I have a similar issue. It's not every 10 mins, but every 2 weeks. So ev. old tmp. files are not cleaned. The suggestion to clear the backup.pipe doesn't work, since this file is already empty.

What can it be then?

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