In my temp folder, which I have mapped to my cache, I have a ton of files that start with “dup-” and then are followed by a random string of letters and numbers. I think these are what are uploaded when I am backing up, and there is a backlog of them from the multiple times that duplicati has hung on an upload and needed to be restarted. Is it ok to delete these? I don’t want to mess up my actual backups.
There is also one .sqlite file, and five .json files. I have 5 seperate backup templates, so I am guessing the .json files are for those. And the sqlite is the database? So I guess those should be left alone? But the other files are rather sizeable. Do I need to keep them?
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I’m surprised that sqlite files in are your temp folder. Can you double check your backup job configurations to confirm where the databases really are? Click on a backup job name, then click the ‘Database…’ hyperlink, and check the ‘Local database path’ field. Does it show your temp folder there?
All 5 are mapped to /config
Forgot to mention, this is a docker running on unraid.
Have you ever used the “restore -> direct restore from backup files” option? That creates a temporary database, but it should clean up afterwards. If you have used that option, perhaps the timestamps of those temp sqlite files correspond to when you used it.
I have never done an actual restore, not a full one anyways. After an upload finished, I have run a restore in that specific backup profile for individual files to make sure they would work. But I don’t know the exact date. And the date on the file is almost a year ago. Don’t think I ran any then. Again, there is just the one sqlite file. There are 5 .json files. and then there are 65 files with no extension. There is also an empty folder labeled HttpServer.
The “backup*.sqlite” files you can delete. Those are created during some version upgrades, and unless you hit a problem and want to roll back pretty quickly, they can be removed.
All of those “dup-*” files are created during the backup process but they really shouldn’t be building up like that. What version are you using?
The current linuxserver docker. It is running 2.0.4.23_beta_2019-07-14.
We just released a new beta, I hope that one leaves much less left-over cruft in the temp folder.
So, I assume that means I can delete the “dup-” files also right? And I should leave only the .json files?
If Duplicati has no active job running, I think you can delete all the dup- files and even the json files.
