Backup Volume full How to make space

[muekno]

my backup volume on my PBS is full. so I deleted some old backups on on th PVE site, but they are not deleted on the PBS sever. What can I doß

 

[HOSTWAY IDC]

Run the job from the Prune & GC Jobs section in the PBS portal.

 

[proxminent]

My Solution on the same situation

Create a checks_tmp/ directory on a different storage volume that has sufficient available space.

Set Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) into maintenance mode (offline).

Move some chunk directories from the original location to the checks_tmp/ directory.

Create symbolic links pointing from the original location to the new temporary location.

Example:

# mkdir /checks_tmp/
# cd /mnt/datastore/pool2/.chunks/
# mv /mnt/datastore/pool2/.chunks/ffff /checks_tmp/
# ln -s /checks_tmp/ffff /mnt/datastore/pool2/.chunks/ffff

Run garbage collection.

After the garbage collection has finished, remove the symbolic links and move the directories back to their original location.