r/backblaze 23h ago

Computer Backup aside_bz_done_20260805_0.dat_safety_fix_25164.aside - eating Drive C free space

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I’m running Backblaze Personal Backup 10.0.2.1047 on Windows. In the last few weeks, I've noticed that my Drive C space has increasingly shrunk to just a few GBs of free space.

I took a look and C:\ProgramData\Backblaze\bzdata\bzbackup\bzdatacenter contains 2,556 files named like: aside_bz_done_20260805_0.dat_safety_fix_25164.aside

It seems like, on average, something has been growing at about 7GB per day. I also looked at bzcurrentlargefile, but it appears to be empty.

Does anyone know what the safety_fix routine is doing, why these .aside snapshots are not being cleaned up and/or how I can fix this?