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Backups directly to S3, problem with space when more than 50% is full. #5638

Closed godlesowned closed 8 months ago

godlesowned commented 11 months ago

Summary

Example: Server is 70% full, it can't create backup file and then move to S3 because there will be no free disc space.

Motivation

Free disk space of our servers.

Additional context

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czssf commented 8 months ago

S3 backup needs to be cached locally and then uploaded to the bucket in parts, you can't backup if you local disk is not enough space.

dragoangel commented 8 months ago

As @czssf said. Plus backups is something not regulated by mailcow, if you do not like default backup script, no problem, do it in another way.