Can I delete folders inside hst_backups?

[fatih]

The disk space was running low, so I checked the folders taking up space on my VPS server. I noticed that there are 32 folders inside the /root/hst_backups directory, and they are occupying space. “Last change” is between 2021 and 2022 years.

I don’t know their purpose. Would deleting them cause any issues?

[sahsanu]

@fatih

32 folders inside the /root/hst_backups directory, and they are occupying space.

Those folders are Hestia’s conf backups made before the Hestia’s upgrade to a new version. If you don’t need those backups, you can remove them, no problem but those backups should take up little space.

[yunli]

This is a scheduled task that I use to automatically delete backups. Perhaps we can consider adding it to future updates

#!/bin/bash

backup_dir="/backup"
current_month=$(date '+%Y-%m')
LOG_FILE="$backup_dir/v-purge-backups-${current_month}.log"

log_message() {
    local timestamp=$(date '+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
    echo "[$timestamp] $1" | tee -a "$LOG_FILE"
}

cd "$backup_dir" || { log_message "Error: Unable to enter backup directory $backup_dir"; exit 1; }
shopt -s nullglob
delete_count=0

log_message "════════Starting to clean up backup files════════"
declare -A processed_users

for user_tar in *.tar; do
  user_name="${user_tar%%.*}"
  if [[ -v processed_users[$user_name] ]]; then
    continue
  fi
  processed_users[$user_name]=1
  latest_backup=$(ls -t "${user_name}."*.tar 2>/dev/null | head -n 1)
  if [[ -n "$latest_backup" ]]; then
    log_message "Keeping the latest backup: $latest_backup"
    old_backups=()
    for old_backup in ${user_name}.*.tar; do
      if [[ "$old_backup" != "$latest_backup" ]]; then
        old_backups+=("$old_backup")
      fi
    done
    if [[ ${#old_backups[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
      log_message "Deleting the following old backup files:"
      for old_backup in "${old_backups[@]}"; do
        log_message " - $old_backup"
        rm -f "$old_backup"
        ((delete_count++))
      done
    else
      log_message "No old backups to delete for user $user_name."
    fi
  fi
done
shopt -u nullglob
log_message "Deleted a total of $delete_count old backup files."
log_message "════════════════Cleanup completed════════════════"

I tweaked it and now it should work!

[sahsanu]

@yunli

automatically delete backups

The op is asking for other backups.

@yunli

Perhaps we can consider adding it to future updates
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Hestia already rotate the backups, there is no need to remove them manually, indeed you will have an inconsistent list of backups for your users.

@yunli

backup_dir="backup"

You should use the full path /backup

@yunli

Echo "Cleanup completed. "

All the Echo commands you have in the script won’t work, Echo command doesn’t exist, replace it by echo

[yunli]

It is currently working normally

Starting to clean up backup files
Keep the latest backup: admin. 2022-11-17_05-10-02.tar
Delete old backup:

• admin.2024-11-16_05-10-03.tar
  Keep the latest backup: admin. 2022-11-17_05-10-02.tar
  Delete old backup:
  Keep the latest backup: www.2024-11-17_05-10-11.tar
  Delete old backup:
• www.2024-11-16_05-10-17.tar
  Keep the latest backup: www.2024-11-17_05-10-11.tar
  Delete old backup:
  Two old backup files were deleted in total.
  Cleaning completed.

This is the received email report

[sahsanu]

@yunli

It is currently working normally

If you are using the same script you posted, it is not working:

# ./clean_backups
./clean_backups: line 7: cd: backup: No such file or directory
./clean_backups: line 34: Echo: command not found