Is it possible to look at what’s been backed up and what’s taking space up on osmc backups?
My vero V backups have gone from about 400mbs to 7 Gbs and each one seems to be a bit larger.
My vero 4k is unaffected despite running the same settings and same skin.
Could it be caches need purging?
Run a backup with thumbnails unchecked and see how big the backup is. I’d suspect that would give you your answer. You can delete your thumbnails and let Kodi rebuild them, but unless you had done a revamp of your library in such a manor that there is a bunch of old abandoned cache images sitting there, then the size will grow to be the same as you navigate your library.
Thanks for you reply, I already have thumbnails unchecked and its still 5Gb +.
Is there a way to delete cache? cant see a setting on the system menu.
I’ve noticed that when I run a backup it displays the data being backed up at the top of the screen. Userdata/addon_data takes an awfully long time to complete, so I think this is the culprit.
Will test by unselecting this and doing another backup, when the current one completes.
I don’t know what addon would be storing that much data. Another possibility is if your using profiles. The selection options in the backup utility are only for the master user and if you backup the profiles folder it backs up the entire folder which contains all the files (including thumbs) for all additional users regardless of which selections are selected otherwise.
There isn’t an option to delete the thumbnail cache wholesale from the UI, but there are a few options. You could look for an add-on that will perform this function. There is texturecache.py but that is more of advanced users level of tool. You can ssh into your device and just manually delete it at the terminal. You could also install SMB server from the My OSMC addon and from a PC browse and manipulate Kodi’s userdata there. This last option may be the easiest method to see what is taking up while using a familiar environment.
Are you familiar accessing the Vero via SSH? Then we can sort this in a minute
Sorry was offline for a while, back on now.
yes I can do that.
I have tried restoring one of the smaller backups, but that made no difference.
Ok, login via ssh
Run
sudo apt install ncdu
Afterwards
ncdu
That will tell you want is taking up the space, you can drill down
Thanks for that, I have found the culprit.
For some reason there were 3 films that were in the userdata/addon folder. Have deleted them and now back to 500 Mbs. backups.
Thank you for your help.
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I did install ncdu, but I found them using samba shares and looking in userdata folder as you suggested above.