Well, not a noob, more like an idiot 😂 EDIT: Yes, on the same drive as my Home folder, etc. And yes, technically they’re snapshots, not backups.
You must log in or # to comment.
Best thing that I’ve ever done was to write automate a weekly script that makes a ZFS snapshot and then deletes any that are over a month old.
That’s a very good idea. Might wanna keep an additional yearly one too though, in case you don’t use the computer actively for a while and realize you have to go back more than a month at some point.
Ya, I offsite backup the entire zpool once a year at least. I have quarterly and yearly snapshots too.
But the weeklies have saved me on several occasions, the others haven’t been needed yet.
I recently realized I forgot to use reflink copy on an XFS filesystem and ran duperemove which freed ~600GB of data
pip cache is another common culprit, I’ve seen up to 50GB
node_modules has entered the chat
There was once a 220 GB log file on my pi-hole server. Probably was a bug though.
I recently had 2/3 of drive space taken by btrfs snapshots. Still learning to manage them properly :D
400 gb of timeshift backups… It felt so good removing them XDDD
i am also running out of disk space. {pacman package cache, Team Fortress 2, a Windows VM and the android SDK being the main culprits.}
How small is your disk?
512GB.
Same like me who never realized i have so many BTRFS Snapper backup in every end of year.
Is there no way to have timeshift auto delete ? I guess thats not how it works huh
For me it’s failed AUR comps
BTRFS + Snapper + BTRFS assistant has been pretty good for me
93 GB is like one weekend of moderate media piracy for me…
I usually set up a completely separate partition on a different drive for Timeshift. That way it doesn’t gradually eat away at system space on the main drive. And even if it was on there, it would have already eaten all that space in readiness, so to speak.
Also, I don’t have it backing up my home directory. I do that separately.
But that said, this post has given me the reminder to see if there are any old snapshots that could do with deleting. And there were a few. It’s now back down to roughly the same size as my main OS install again, which is about as big as it needs to be if you think about it.
“Backups” to the same disk?
Personally i use them in case an update messes stuff up. So i can restore it back.
So not backups, but snapshots.
Yeah, snapshots. It would make more sense to store them on a different drive, but I can’t add an additional drive into my PC (it’s a prebuilt so I’m waiting until I can afford a new PC) and I can’t be bothered with saving them to an external hard drive.
Just curious. No spare SATA ports?
Why not just get a bigger case and upgrade the prebuilt over time? A PC is inherently modular, you can replace what you’ve already got pretty easily, piece by piece. Unless you think all of the components are trash and you want to completely start over, of course.
Even still, an upgraded GPU or CPU will make an immediate impact even on shitty hardware.
To be fair, I wouldn’t consider storing it on one additional drive in the same PC to be backup either. One theft, lightning strike, fire or even just a stupid mistake on your own part and that “backup” is a goner
If it makes you fell any better, after doing a fresh install, I tried a “finally finished setting everything up” backup and was immediately out of space.
Turns out it was saving backups to my boot sector. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦
lol, you can just set it up to keep the latest snapshots only.
(noob here)
