[BlueOnyx:26805] Re: Large cme-mailspool

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Robert,

> Thanks as always, Michael. You always remind me of Easy Migrate and I do 
> plan to use that for migration. Can it be used for backup since it pulls 
> from another BO server?

Easy-Migrate could be used that way, but you might be better off to 
consider "Easy-Backup" for proper backing up of all data. Because that 
also allows you to have several generations of backups.

> The job did finish eventually by this morning. However, the raqbackup 
> notification came in at 10pm the night before, I guess it just hands off 
> the pigz jobs and moves on to finish? 

Correct. It chains the commands to create a tarball, to split large 
tarballs up and to pass the whole thing through "pigz" for compression.

> Also, when you say delete ~dcoolidge/mbox, you're referring to the
> users mailbox or some other backup location?

I was guessing and my assumption is that the user has a roughly 40GB 
mbox file with ancient emails in it.

I don't know what Vsite the user belongs to, so I don't know the exact 
path to his home directory. But when you know the username of user?

Then you can simply use the tilde and the username and it will reference 
you to the home directory of that user.

Example:

cd ~admin

That will change the directory to /home/.users/admin, because that's 
where BlueOnyx usually has the admin account.

In your case with user "dcoolidge"?

cd ~dcoolidge

That would change the directory to that of this user.

You can also directly delete files this way. So when I suggested to 
delete the mbox file of that user? Then you could use this:

rm ~dcoolidge/mbox

But before you do that, you could also check what uses up so much space 
in that users home directory - just to be sure:

du -h ~dcoolidge

That creates a human readable output of all files and folders in this 
users home directory and should tell you what's sucking up so much space.

And then you can delete it more selectively. But my guess? It's the 
"mbox" file, because it usually is.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber