Backup archive creation location and out of disk space

Virtualmin
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SYSTEM INFORMATION
OS type and version Almalinux 9.4
Webmin version 2.111
Virtualmin version 7.20.2

Hi,

I have a bit of a disk space problem.

I have a /home and / root partition xfs/LVM

there would be enough space in /home to do the virtualmin backups, but it seems when creating the bzip2 or zip or other archive it will create it somewhere on the / partition.

I only have 48GB free and the Backup is 22GB, it seems to create 22GB+22GB and then after uploading to FTP deletes them luckily.

Is there any way to move the backup creation process to /home? I have 98GB free on that partition.

last days backup failed due to insufficient disk space, I deleted some uncessary stuff but I am still strapped for space.

I am scared of doing any partition merging I have no experience with that.

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Whats not break the backups into 2, with half the domains in one and the rest in another.

also are you using one file per server?

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I am using single archive but the other servers are only like 100MB only one is 22GB so I dont think it would make much difference

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You might be able to work out how to mount /tmp to a larger partition as that where the backup is made. You may need to resize /home to give it enough space.

looking at source code the file is where I found tmp directory, you might be able edit that, backup orginal first of cause.

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-gpl/master/backups-lib.pl raw view

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Create a directory /home/tmp for example and make it sticky (chmod 1777 /home/tmp). Then create directory /home/tmp/.webmin

In webmin change the tmp directory. Webmin → Webmin configuration → Advanced Options → Temporary files directory, change from Default /tmp/.webmin to /home/tmp/.webmin

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This worked great, thank you.