High Harddrive Usage On Full Backup Trigger

Installation Home Assistant OS
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All,

I’m having an issue with harddrive usage… and I’m stumped… I’m running my HA on a 1TB SSD… just to put this in perspective.

It’s running on a Pi4 and I use the harddrive for some other stuff too but that is only taking up 150 gigs. I also run my media on an external server.

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When I had the increase in space I simply deleted some old backups that couldn’t have been more than 20 Gb’s. It was a bunch of partial backups from updates.

I run Maria DB on a separate server so all my logging is external.

I tried

ha su repair

with 0 impact.

When I had a LITERAL 200 GB drop in free space I initiated a HA backup. That backup cannot be found in the folder and the backup failed. The backup told me to see the supervisor log for details… the supervisor log had no mention of any backup failures in it. After the backup failed. I could watch my free space drop probably about a .6 GB’s a minute LITERALLY! It did not stop until I forced a reboot.

Then it gets more interesting, I see the usage in gParted but my filesystem properties and the CLI both do not show this usage.

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It all seems to be centered around the internal HA backups… but I can’t figure out how.

Below Red Arrow is running repair and blue arrow is disabling my warning logger setup.

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Sometimes you get a failure message from the backup, because it has not responded in a longer time interval, but in fact it is just busy doing the backup.
HA then tells you to look at the supervisor logs for errors, but since the backup is still running as it should there will be no errors.
Try to do it again, but have patience, lots of patience.

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@WallyR the issue isn’t the backup not completing. The issue is during the course of the backup it used 200GB of harddrive space.

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It was just the errors I explained.
The size might be related to what is inside the backups, so look at that.
The backups are just compressed files and the backup need some working space, since a backup can not be handled in memory.