[Borgbackup] Central backup and ~/.cache/borg/ piling up

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

Am Sonntag, 30. August 2020, 14:01:58 CEST schrieb Thomas Waldmann:
> >> The chunks.archive.d cache is O(archive count * archive size) big, so if
> >> that is getting too big, just reduce the archive count via "borg prune".
> 
> Check whether the chunks.archive.d directory is eating your disk space.

It is:
$ du -h . chunks.archive.d/
17G     ./chunks.archive.d
21G     .

> If so, you either can reduce archive amount or apply the hack from the
> FAQ to get rid of chunks.archive.d (the latter might be ok, if only one
> borg client will write to the repo, so cache rebuilds will never or
> rarely happen OR if you are willing to take the time for the rebuilds).

Will dive into this next.
 
> > discussion of --no-files-cache
> 
> Will make your backups slow as it will read/chunk/hash/lookup all files
> content.

Thanks,
Pete