Delete old backups?

Channels DVR Server
#1

My dvr directory has a ton of old database backups (going back two years) - is it okay to delete them?

#2

How many total?

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#3

88

#4

Okay it's only supposed to keep 6

You can delete the old ones

#5

I have 30 on all four of my dvr's.

#6

I had about 30 down to 3 now after manual cleanup.

Maybe it is 6 days ... but with all the updates it might create more than 1 a day ? I believe it creates a backup after an update ?

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#7

I don't worry about mine. They range from 58-145 MB across my 4 servers right now and there are never more than 30 backups in the Database directory. Well, except for the fraction of a millisecond after a new one is created before the oldest is deleted.

2022/08/29 21:03:34.773973 [SYS] Created database snapshot: backup-20220829.210334
2022/08/29 21:03:34.774201 [SYS] Removing old backup backup-20220815.193414
#8

31 for me

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#9

I think 6 is the number of versions kept.
Yep

# ls -l /volume1/docker/channels-dvr
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 28 09:33 2022.08.28.0324
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 11:09 2022.08.29.0732
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 13:56 2022.08.29.2033
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 15:17 2022.08.29.2159
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 17:32 2022.08.29.2306
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 29 19:03 2022.08.30.0044
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Aug 30 09:47 data
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 Aug 29 19:03 latest -> 2022.08.30.0044
#10

I have 30 as well going back a little over two weeks. For some days there are several depending upon how many restarts were done that day which would usually only be for upgrading to a new pre-release.

#11

I show 6 in my channels-dvr folder and 30 in my dvr folder

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