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Hello,

I keep getting alerts that the localhost root partition space is running out. I had another thread asking for temporary files that can be removed, which I did, but it only lasted a little while. I have local backup enabled but the backup is stored in a different partition. I am wondering if there are any other files I can move off the root partition as our Linux support team has a policy not to extend root partition space. I seem to remember seeing it somewhere on the web interface that the database is backed up separately and there has been daily weekly monthly backups, and wondering if I can manually move those backups to the backup partition?

Thanks!

I wouldn't recommend it, but you could always just turn off the separate database backups. If you post the output of cat /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi, we can see if the backups are running, and how often.

For the sake of clarity, since you asked about moving them, you can certainly do that.

Probably, those backups are located in /store/backups/

We did not change anything for database backup, so it should be whatever default was:

$ cat /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi
# /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi: crontab fragment for nagiosxi

# Backup MySQL & PostgreSQL Databases
0 7 * * * root /root/scripts/automysqlbackup
0 7 * * * root /root/scripts/autopostgresqlbackup > /dev/null 2>&1

* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/sysstat.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/sysstat.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/cmdsubsys.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/eventman.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/eventman.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/event_handler.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/event_handler.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/feedproc.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/feedproc.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/perfdataproc.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/perfdataproc.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/nom.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/nom.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/reportengine.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/reportengine.log 2>&1
*/5 * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/dbmaint.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/dbmaint.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/cleaner.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log 2>&1
01 * * * * nagios /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/recurringdowntime.pl >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/recurringdowntime.log 2>&1
* * * * * nagios /usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/deadpool.php >> /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/deadpool.log 2>&1[zhangj3@arqtcenagmonp01 ~]$

dwhitfield wrote:I wouldn't recommend it, but you could always just turn off the separate database backups. If you post the output of cat /etc/cron.d/nagiosxi, we can see if the backups are running, and how often.

For the sake of clarity, since you asked about moving them, you can certainly do that.

Probably, those backups are located in /store/backups/

Thanks for the reply! I not only want to move the existing backups but also want to change the future backup to not use the root partition, but the backup partition, how do I do that?

Thanks

To move the automated SQL backups, you would edit this file and change this path to the new location then edit this file and change this path to the new location Then the next time the script runs, the backups will be in the new location.

I do not seem to have this file:

/root/scripts/autopostgresqlbackup

You can then just ignore the second suggestion and only modify the automysqlbackup file.

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