Question about /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks

[cpulove]

Hi, I have two PBS running, one on my online Webserver and one in my Homelab.
Both do not store the backups on the server disk itself, the store on a mounted volume.
Now I ran out of storage at one of the PBS and had to increase the size of the disk, which worked fine.

But I am wondering, why one PBS needs onyl round about 3,5GB of disk space, while the other needs more then double!
Investigating the folders I found the difference in this folder:
/var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks

PBS Homelab
root@pbs:# du -hs /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks
22M /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks

PBS Webserver
root@pbs:# du -hs /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks
1.7G /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks

Are these tasks related to the number of backups, setup under PVE?
I defentitly have more backups running with my PBS Webserver (2 VMs and 5 Containers), compared to my Homelab (1 VM and 2 Container).
How comes the size difference? Related to the size of VMs and Containers?

Is there a way to clean up PBS from unneeded files and updates?

 

[mariol]

Which PBS version are you using? Log rotation is already implemented in the current version.

You can also delete the logs manually:

[SOLVED] Post in thread 'Proxmox-backup logs'

Oct 19, 2021

we recently implmented a cleanup of old task logs https://git.proxmox.com/?p=proxmox-backup.git;a=commit;h=0e1edf19b1c3f4e68e1340b340a6c655846ce095
it's not currently packaged, so it may take a bit until you can update to it.

if you really cannot wait, you can manually delete task logs e.g. older than 90 days with

find /var/log/proxmox-backup/tasks -type f  -name 'UPID*' -mtime +90 -delete

(replace the '90' with a value you find appropriate)

if you do not give the '-delete' parameter it gives you a list of files that matched

note that it will no longer work to view...

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