Updraft is filling server diskspace

Hi,

Backup archives are created locally, and then dispatched to the chosen remote storage, and then the local copy is deleted. It has to be done this way, because remote storage providers (e.g. Dropbox, Google Drive, etc.) only provide an interface to receive a complete archive – i.e. there is not interface to send the files that make up the archive and have the remote storage provider construct it remotely.

David

So – given you have remote storage set up – i guess it s totally safe to delete the content of wp-content/updraft/ ?

thanks

If your backups are successfully being uploaded to remote storage (UpdraftPlus should inform you if there is an error), then you can delete the contents of the updraft backup folder.

However, the log files for backups and restorations are also stored in this directory. These are used for debugging and support, so only delete the if you are sure everything is working.

Thanks for the reply @dnutbourne

In my case the local archives are not getting deleted. What can I do to fix this?

Could you upload a full copy of the backup log? This should show why the backups are not deleting local archives.

It will be too long to post here directly, but you can use a service such as pastebin, and post the link here.

My local files are also not deleted, can you take a look at my logfile?

https://pastebin.com/ivn1qTKt

Thanks!

I also just found out that undeleted backups were taking up about 5gb of server space. Here’s my log file. Any help would be appreciated! https://pastebin.com/rjzRNa2Y