Backups clog storage

[alento]

@Nomak

The first thing you need to do is to reclaim some empty space:

Journalctl -- reclaim space on small mailinabox

I run my mailinabox on a small VPS with a 20G disk. The remaining space was getting tight, so I decided to go looking for some space and I discovered that /var/log/journal/ was consuming 1.8G. This was in logs only going back to March of this year which suggests lots of people may be losing a similar amount of storage. I didn’t need to keep all the journals so I freed-up almost all the space with journalctl --vacuum-time=10d which preserves 10 days of journals. An alternative is to preserve b…

Then I am curious to know why you are keeping a second backup with multiple copies on the server at /root/backup/mailbox? Are you using some utility to create this backup?