Backup files are getting larger and larger

[ehlxr]

First of all, thank you for the author's efforts! When the content of anytype remains unchanged, the backup files are getting larger and larger every day. I suspect they are log files. How can I clean up the log files during backup?

[grishy]

Thank you for the issue!
Can you describe the setup and mode that you are using?

[ehlxr]

I deploy using compose.aio.yml and perform scheduled backups every day with the command tar -czf backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tar.gz ./data/

[codetist]

It is the MongoDB generating metrics in mongo/diagnostic.data. My instance generates ~100MB/week but seems to delete older data. I excluded this directory from the backups. This data is not needed for running the database. It is just… diagnostics.

Also the MongoDB seems to be SIGKILLed when the container shuts down. Depending on the workload this might lead to bigger transaction logs that are needed by the database to recover from improper shutdown.