Re: SMDBA Tool does not clean up the backup archives

Hi Jordi, it is the documentation from the Uyuni project site: https://www.uyuni-project.org/uyuni-docs/uyuni/administration/backup-restore... I configured all of them exactly as documented there, including the entry in /etc/cron.d/db-backup-mgr. @Michael Calmer the one and only entries in the daily log files are: "unexpected EOF on client connection with an open transaction" I think this is just an indication of the online status of the DB during the "hot backup"? Otherwise, log files and the WAL files in / var / spacewalk / db-backup are diligently created every day. The files are just simply not deleted @Silvio Moioli that's exactly what I assumed, it doesn't make sense to keep the WAL files until the Last Judgment. To make room temporarely, I deleted the oldest files from 2020 manually now. Regards Thomas

Am 17.05.2021 um 10:46 schrieb Jordi Massaguer Pla :

On 5/14/21 6:56 PM, Thomas Weis wrote:

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Hi Jordi,

Thank you for your answer. Yes, I expected that the smba tool would only archive a certain time frame. According to the documentation: "The smdba tool also manages your archives, keeping only the most recent backup, and the current archive of logs." Have I misinterpreted that and do I delete the superfluous archives manually or by script or does the smdba tool not do what it should do here?

Can you do me a favor and point me to the documentation? I joined this teams some months ago and, among other things, I am taking care of this, so I don't know yet all the details, thus I am not sure if you refer to suse manager docs, uyuni wiki, smdba readme

If you don't mind sending me a link to the docs where this is stated, you would save me some time to look everywhere ;)

Thanks in advance

jordi

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