Excessive large backup file between Secondary and Primary unit in Full HA mode

[LeeBingKang]

Hi All,

Recently, I just aware there is a weird symptoms whereby the backup of the secondary unit (6.2G) is larger almost 8 times more than the primary unit (800MB) in 1 of my customer's FULL HA setup.

Is it normal? If yes, what might the reason of this happened?

Appreciate for your feedback on this matter.

[Amir_Senn]

Perhaps the secondary is being used as log server?

Maybe it will be similar if logs are excluded from backup.

[Lesley]

Would be helpfull if you can find out what files inside the backups are large. Are you able to unzip the backups and spot what is different? 

[the_rock]

I also second what @Amir_Senn had said, makes total sense to me. Please check that and let us know.

Best,

Andy

[LeeBingKang]

Hi all,

Thanks for the feedback. I will try to get the backup, unzip and compare it.

Will update once got the result (maybe after 2 or 3 weeks)

[the_rock]

Sounds good, keep us posted.

Best,

Andy

[LeeBingKang]

Hi All,

I found out this file take a lot of space

I not sure what is the use of this file.

Appreciate if there is anyone can guide on this.

Thank you

[the_rock]

Is it in /var/log/backups dir? If so, sounds like backup that can be removed.

Andy

[LeeBingKang]

Hi @the_rock ,

it is in the /var/log directory. Not sure all those are backups file. Maybe i try to extract out and see what was inside.

Regards,

Lee Bing Kang

[LeeBingKang]

Hi @the_rock ,

I tried extract to have a look. and this is it.

[the_rock]

Just to be safe, I would get the file off the box and then delete it.

Andy

[Amir_Senn]

Check if you have coredump files in /var/log/dump/usermode/