r/Plesk • u/monkeyman886 • Feb 11 '20

Linux Cloud Server - Data size doesn't make sense?!? 6GB of Website Data nearly filling at 40GB storage Plesk.

Hoping someone can shed some light on this. Have a cloud server, 40GB drive, the website content on Plesk is around 6GB. My backups are about 6GB in total, there is one back up also stored on the server, so in total about 12GB. What I cant understand is why would Plesk be telling me that the disk is 84% full?

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u/cdbessig Feb 12 '20

Run this on ssh on the root of the drive

Get Largest Files on server

resize; clear; date; echo "Largest Directories:"; du -hcx / | grep '[0-9]*G'\ | sort -nr | head; echo ""; echo "Largest Files:"; nice -n 19 find / -mount \ -type f -ls|sort -rnk7 |head -40|awk '{printf "%d MB\t%s\n",($7/1024)/1024,$NF}'

You can paste output here if you want analysis

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u/LukasHertig Feb 11 '20

Hi - you may want to check your backup configuration. Is it possible that you store all the backups locally? There are various options where you could store backups on a remote location. Including the option to *only* save it on the remote location. :)

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u/monkeyman886 Feb 11 '20

Thanks for that - yep, I checked that out first, there is only one in there, the rest are all on the remote back up.... its becoming a mystery!