Running out of disk space when doing backups filling up dom0?

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I’ve been running backups using a dedicated qube, on some of my larger qubes. My normal process is to create the backup on that “backup” qube, and then later transfer the file to an external HD and/or the cloud. (I find that trying to write directly to the external HD isn’t efficient and doesn’t always work well.) I have enough overall disk space to do this.

I just went to do this again today, and got a varlibqubes full message (and the backup failed due to disk space). I expanded the size of dom0 and tried again. Now it’s full again and the backup failed. I’m assuming it’s some sort of temporary file being created in dom0 by the backup process? If so, can you tell me where to find it so I can delete it?

Thanks!

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Check in /var/tmp/.

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Thanks for responding so quickly. I cleared that folder out, and it still wasn’t solving the problem. But then I discovered my mistake - the last couple backups I tried I hadn’t put in my special qube - I had saved it in dom0 instead. So no wonder it was filling that up. Deleted those partial backups and everything was fine.

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