# Ok to delete owncloud-backup directories

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**Created:** [September 2, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ok-to-delete-owncloud-backup-directories/12300 "2024-09-02T21:59:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![tdahbura](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/tdahbura/32/883_2.png) [@tdahbura](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/tdahbura)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 9:59pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ok-to-delete-owncloud-backup-directories/12300/1 "2024-09-02T21:59:22Z")

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I have own cloud backup directories dating back to 2021. Can I just remove these older directories?

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 2 17:49 2024-09-02-17:48:35  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 5 2023 2023-09-05-09:29:34  
**drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 4 2023 2023-09-04-10:31:39**  
**drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Sep 4 2023 2023-09-04-10:20:04**  
**drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jul 24 2022 2022-07-24-09:35:17**  
**drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 24 2021 2021-10-24-11:48:57**

Thanks for any guidance on these!  
Tony

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**Author:** ![dms](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/user_avatar/discourse.mailinabox.email/dms/32/2518_2.png) [@dms](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/dms)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ok-to-delete-owncloud-backup-directories/12300/2 "2024-09-02T23:25:38Z")

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You didn’t show the path of the files you’re listing, so I’ll assume you’ve listed the files in `/home/user-data/owncloud-backup/`. If that’s true, then yes, you can delete them. I keep the last one around, because I don’t know under what circumstance it could be needed, but for sure you can delete all the rest. These backup directories also consume a lot of space.

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**Author:** ![system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/uploads/default/original/2X/4/4d0933d13c456b7e57f296aa6cc344525b6f0c70.png) [@system](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2024, 11:26pm UTC](https://discourse.mailinabox.email/t/ok-to-delete-owncloud-backup-directories/12300/3 "2024-10-12T23:26:12Z")

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