Linux Bug 5% to 97% storage growth

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Some problem with Linux took what was 5% of the SSD to 97% and rendered my server inoperable for obvious reasons. I was able to recover my files but there is a problem that I have not been able to put my finger on.

Looking at df -h showed the database was huge but in MySQL nothing seems amis. I am using MySQL 8 which is the newer version.

I will have to install certbot fresh once the server is reinstalled

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Hi @HardcoreGames,

This is probably not a Let's Encrypt question. :slight_smile:

Consider a command like

du -a | sort -n

to find the individually largest files and directories on your filesystem.

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I agree with this.

However, this might be a good opportunity to warn @HardcoreGames to also backup the /etc/letsencrypt/ directory and restore it after the reinstall.

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the file system was damaged so I was not able to recover my certificates

maybe I need to make a bash script too gzip everything to make recovery faster

that and one to install linux fresh with my software stack

certbot.eff.org is the bookmark I have

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I don't understand, you said this:

Or aren't certificates counted as files? :roll_eyes:

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I was not able to gzip anything as the file system was unwritable

I have daily backups of the /var/www and my personal file but that is all that I have mechanized

like I said the system storage was overwhelmed, not sure what happened

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That's where USB sticks, DVD drives and/or remote shares come in :slight_smile:

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I have vsftpd installed which is how i backup my files ordinarily

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Should work fine for /etc/letsencrypt/

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I will add that to my backup script but I believe that certbot can figure out a certificate for the server

my worry now is to discover what is gobbling up all of the storage

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What does that mean? You mean issue a new one? If you got the certificates and private key lying around, it's a shame to issue a new one and add unnecessary load to the Let's Encrypt infrastructure.

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I have wondered how to mechanize the update process as chron is a daily event but certificates are 90 day elements which means chron is in need of some modification

no scheduled events that I am aware of

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certbot is usually run through cron twice a day. Certbot consequently will determine if a cert needs to be renewed, not cron.

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checking a server twice daily is a lot of workload

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Reading a handful of files twice daily is "a lot of workload"? Heck, an Arduino could manage that without noticing the difference.

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next up is a vhost file for the website

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName hardcoregames.ca
    ServerAlias www.hardcoregames.ca
    DocumentRoot /var/www/hardcoregames.ca/index.php
    <Directory var/www/hardcoregames.ca/
        Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks
        AllowOverride All
    </Directory>
    #ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain1.com-error.log
    #CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/domain1.com-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
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Next up? What's the purpose or goal of this thread?

Without any I'm inclined to close it..

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seem that apache2 is not bring up the site as usual

so now the fun is figuring out what us wrong

looking in apache2/sites-enabled I see the ln to my conf file as above


 hardcoregames.ca.conf -> ../sites-available/hardcoregames.ca.conf
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As it seems this thread hasn't got a specific link to Let's Encrypt and as this is the #help section of the Let's Encrypt Community (and not a general forum), I'm closing this thread.

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