Cleanup your messy backup by hand could be fun! Kinda of. The goal is to remove duplicated files and organize the files into a new structure.
\nFirst of all lets record the free disk space over time.
\nConsider this script which collects the free space over time in a file:<\/p>\n
\r\n$ cat freespace.sh \r\ndate | tr '\\n' ' ' | tee -a freespace_overtime\r\ndf -h . | tail -n 1 | tee -a freespace_overtime\r\n\r\n$ cat freespace_overtime \r\nSun 09 Apr 2023 08:24:59 AM CEST \/dev\/sdb1 1008G 779G 178G 82% \/mnt\r\n<\/pre>\nNow lets try to find some things like local Qt and boost installations, check the downloads\/ and opt\/ folders, .Trash\/ .wine build\/ .hg .svg git .local .cache .mozilla .dropbox java .steam bin\/ , linux- kernel source, other obsolete downloads and delete them. Also check for hidden directories and hidden files...<\/p>\n
\nLocal Qt installation are usually in the folder \"QtSDK\" or \"Qt-*\". The -prune option tell find to stop the recursion when find a matching folder.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "QtSDK*" -prune \r\n.\/backup\/kater_12.01.2018\/kater\/QtSDK\r\n\r\nfind . -type d -iname "Qt-*" -prune\r\n.\/backup\/kater_12.01.2018\/kater\/Qt-1.6.0\r\n<\/pre>\n\r\nfind . -type d -iname "*.java*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n6GB good start<\/p>\n
\nFind boost installations<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find . -type d -iname "boost*" -prune \r\n.\/backup\/kater_12.01.2018\/kater\/download\/boost_1_64_0\r\n<\/pre>\nAlmost 1GB for me.<\/p>\n
\nUsually there is a lot of stuff in the downloads folder which can be removed<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find . -type d -iname "*download*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nCleaned up 14GB!<\/p>\n
\nMore obsolete stuff in opt\/ folders.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "opt" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nOnly 1GB this time.<\/p>\n
\nFind trash bins.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "*trash*" \r\n.\/.Trash-1000\r\n.\/backup\/backup_80GB_HDD\/backup_festrechner_13.03.2012\/kater\/.local\/share\/Trash\r\n<\/pre>\n5GB Trash... Be aware don't delete your regular backup files. Because there is no other backup ;)<\/p>\n
\nOld wine folders can be interesting. ...<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname ".wine" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nBut not this time.<\/p>\n
\nFinding old build folders result in a lot of false positives.<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find . -type d -iname "*build*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n2GB for me.<\/p>\n
\nOld Mercurial hidden folders. Delete them all!<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find . -type d -iname ".hg" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nAnd old subversion folders too. Gosch I have over 200 of them<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname ".svn" -prune | xargs rm -fr\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nDon't forget to delete the git folders too! They should be in the cloud anyway ;)<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname ".git" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nWow 11GB. Guess I deleted some other things too XD<\/p>\n
\nNicht wirklich was zu holen bei .local.<\/p>\n
\r\n find . -type d -iname ".local" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nImmerhin 1GB bei .cache<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname ".cache" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nNur 700MB. Weg damit. Wenn da was wichtiges gespeichert w\u00e4re, h\u00e4tte man es an anderer Stelle nochmal gespeichert.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname ".mozilla" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nDropbox haha als sich \"Cloud\" anfing durchzusetzen.<\/p>\n
\r\n find . -type d -iname "*dropbox*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nHaha Java weine ich keiner Tr\u00e4ne nach<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "*.java*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nMit Steam ist das eigentlich so eine Sache, aber auf der anderen Seite kann man alles neu runterladen. Man hat es ja gekauft...<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "*.steam" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n1.3GB!<\/p>\n
\nUnglaublich was sich so alles in bin\/ Ordner versteckt.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -type d -iname "bin" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nImmerhin 6GB.<\/p>\n
\nVersteckte Ordner sind ja auch so einen Sache von denen man nichts wei\u00df und ergo auch nicht braucht.<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find \/mnt -type d -iname ".*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\nDas waren auch ein paar GB...<\/p>\n
\nUnd versteckte Dateien erst. Was sich da an M\u00fcll ansammelt<\/p>\n
\r\n$ find \/mnt -type f -iname ".*" -prune\r\n<\/pre>\n
\nDiese dummen autoerstellen thumbnail Dateien k\u00f6nnen auch weg. <\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -iname "thumbs.db" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\n<\/pre>\nNur 40MB aber M\u00fcll ist M\u00fcll.<\/p>\n
\nBeim erstellen von Half Life Maps entstanden fr\u00fcher jeden Menge M\u00fclldatein beim compilieren. Diese haben die Endung p0 p1 p2 p3 prt pts wic lin max und k\u00f6nnen nach kurzer Sichtung alle gel\u00f6scht werden.<\/p>\n
\r\nfind . -iname "*.p0" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.p1" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.p2" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.p3" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.prt" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.pts" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.wic" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.lin" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\nfind . -iname "*.max" -print0 | xargs -0 du -ch\r\n<\/pre>\nBei den .prt Datein hat sich _EINE_ Datei aus NFSp reingemogelt die nicht gel\u00f6scht werden sollte.
\nKanpp 1k Datei und 62M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cleanup your messy backup by hand could be fun! Kinda of. The goal is to remove duplicated files and organize the files into a new structure. First of all lets record the free disk space over time. Consider this script which collects the free space over time in a file: $ cat freespace.sh date | […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5105,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions\/5105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/roboblog.fatal-fury.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}