I am really confused what you're asking.
#Hey, i want help with estimating disk usage of Pterodactyl Wings and split them.
fleet swan
I can assume lots of others are too and due to that there hasn't been an answer.
Still no need to go spam multiple times "no answer" :p
high snow
I can assume lots of others are too and due to that there hasn't been an answer.
Basically I am asking what is the purpose of each directory mentioned in the wings config.
And how to estimate how much backup storage I should assign, if i give 2 backups per server, and let's say i have 2 servers that i dedicated 50GB in each, and they both use it 100%.
fleet swan
if you have 2 servers, both using 50G and want to have 2 backups per server, then simply put you need 200G for backups
high snow
And if when making a backup, that goes through the tmp directory first, or through the archive directory first, or straight to the backup folder.
high snow
if you have 2 servers, both using 50G and want to have 2 backups per server, the...
Yes, but what If they have a schedule for backups
fleet swan
You are thinking of this very.. complicatedly
high snow
But it does after the new one is created
Then after it verifies it's created
Then deletes the oldest one
Not sure if u get what im saying.
Ima try to explain better
Lets say,
I have a 20GB container, full of data, i gave it 2 backups,
So it can have up to 40GB of backup data, but when a new one is going to get created by the schedule, for a bit while its being created it will use up to 60GB, then after its being created without corruption it will delete the older one and go back to 40GB.
Or, that temporary 20GB backup while being created, its going to be created on the archive directory, or on the tmp directory, then oldest one from backup directory is going to get deleted, and then the new backup is going to get transferred from the tmp or the archive directory so the backup directory is never going to exceed the 40GB limit.
I think that this is more simple to understand, :O
humble widget
I think that this is more simple to understand, :O
Backups do not pre-check for file space, it lets the file system handle that. It creates a tar.gz of your data in the backups directory and attempts to create a backup. If it should fail, due to space limitations or other errors, it will pend/fail the backup task.
Feel free to take a look under the hood for yourself here: https://github.com/pterodactyl/wings/tree/develop/server/backup
humble widget
That’s the panel and it checks for the backup limit aka number of backups it’s allowed to have made and persistently have on file.
Wings is what actually makes the backup (file system and compression etc)
high snow
Yes
But it does actually delete the oldest backup before creating a new one right,
Before the scheduled task telling wings to create a new one, if limit exceed, it tells it to delete the older one first, correct me if wrong.
humble widget
You’d have to look at the $backup->delete function found in the deletebackupservice handler to see all that it does. I’m not able to search for it right now.
high snow
Okey, thank you.
humble widget
Okey, thank you.
Actually, after looking into the backup service further, it does appear to delete the oldest backup regardless if it’s a scheduled or manual backup, if your number of backups limit has been reached. Whenever the backup creation event is fired, it deletes the oldest and attempts to create a new one. That being said it still doesn’t check the file size, it only deletes the oldest backup. I don’t believe your backups count towards container space though as they’re in a different directory than your container volume and depend on file system space.