How to prevent EFA to make automatic backups

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maxkmv
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How to prevent EFA to make automatic backups

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Hello Community,

Does anyone know how to prevent EFA to automatically backup into /var/EFA/backup folder ? The backups are eating 4-8 Gb of disk space and on my miniature 30 Gb. VM it is just way too much of precious disk space. Unfortunately I am not too knowledgeable or courageous to try and increase the partition size in Linux (even having read the tutorial right here on this website I am still chickening out..).

And yes I do daily incremental backups of this VM with Veeam B&R, so no problem to disable internal EFA backup for me :-))

P.S. I checked CRON and I checked scheduled tasks from within web interface:10000 (Webmin section) - but it says no scheduled tasks exist, so not sure where else to check and disable the automated backups. If I delete everything in that folder it just gets filled up again after few days..
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Re: How to prevent EFA to make automatic backups

Post by henk »

If I delete everything in that folder it just gets filled up again after few days.
Keeps you busy :lol:

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ls -l /etc/cron.daily
There should be a EFA-Backup-cron. Just comment the 2 lines

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#/usr/local/sbin/EFA-Backup -backup >> /var/log/EFA/EFA-Backup.log 2>&1
#/usr/local/sbin/EFA-Backup -purge >> /var/log/EFA/EFA-Backup.log 2>&1
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maxkmv
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Re: How to prevent EFA to make automatic backups

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Great! Thanks very much!

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