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I am noticing while I am backing up my lab and tmp directories, in the /opt/unetlab/tmp/<pod>/<lab id>/<node>/ there is copies of the /opt/qemu-*, and /opt/unetlab/addons directories. This appears to be in everysingle node? Anyone aware of why this is happening? I would think that it would have the image of what the node was built against, but not everything in those directories? This can cause alot of drive space utilization on large labs.


example of what I am seeing.

1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/qemu-6.0.0/var/run/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/viptela-edge-20.6.4-genericx86-64.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/viptela-smart-20.6.4-genericx86-64.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav-9-16-4-9/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav-9-16-4-9/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav-916-214/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/asav-916-214/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/c8000v-17.04.01a/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/c8000v-17.04.01a/c8000v-universalk9.17.04.01a.iso
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/c8000v-17.04.01a/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/c8000v-17.05.01a/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/c8000v-17.05.01a/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/isrv-16.11.01a/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/isrv-16.11.01a/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/isrv-17.03.06/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/isrv-17.03.06/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-netem/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-netem/hda.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-16.04-desktop/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-16.04-desktop/cdrom.iso
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-16.04-desktop/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-18.04-desktop/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-18.04-desktop/cdrom.iso
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-18.04-desktop/virtioa.qcow2
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-20.04-server/
1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/14/opt/unetlab/addons/qemu/linux-ubuntu-20.04-server/cdrom.iso

Thanks,

Tim

yes it happens every time, because eve from base image created mirror of hdd in the tmp where your labs config is saved

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Correct, such is expected, one user can have only one session. If to have same user session from multi places, you 100% risk to screw this lab, design etc.
But you can check option shared project, when project/lab owner sharing lab for other user, and you both can work on single lab at the same time
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Uldis (UD) wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 20, 2023 7:02 pm

yes it happens every time, because eve from base image created mirror of hdd in the tmp where your labs config is saved

Can these extra unused directories be removed as long as I keep the image for that specific node in place? The opt directory in the list below has the copy of all images, but I think I only need to use the virtioa.qcow2 and virtiob.qcow2.


drwxrwsr-x 3 root unl 4096 Aug 9 2022 dev
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Nov 23 18:05 jail
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root unl 0 Feb 13 16:41 l1up_0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root unl 0 Feb 13 16:41 l1up_1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root unl 8 May 3 2022 lib -> jail/lib
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root unl 10 May 3 2022 lib64 -> jail/lib64
srwxrwxr-x 1 root unl 0 Feb 13 16:41 mon2-sock
srwxrwxr-x 1 root unl 0 Feb 13 16:41 mon-sock
drwxrwsr-x 14 root unl 4096 Aug 9 2022 opt
srwxrwxr-x 1 root unl 0 Feb 13 16:41 qmp-sock
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root unl 8 May 3 2022 usr -> jail/usr
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root unl 8586985472 Feb 22 14:14 virtioa.qcow2
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root unl 43385094144 Feb 22 14:14 virtiob.qcow2
root@evesv01anp:/opt/unetlab/tmp/1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822/12#



The reason I am concerned about all of the duplicates files is that my directory space is 1.4tb.

root@evesv01anp:/opt/unetlab# du -hs /opt/unetlab/tmp/1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822
1.4T /opt/unetlab/tmp/1/665dba7b-a5bd-47b2-96fd-d3b78532a822


its a waste of drive space having a clone of the all the images within each of my 69 node directories.

You can try remove but make sure you are ready to lost this lab then

I'll build a test lab first and see the results.

Ok, i think I figured this out. When my lab is running, my directory size is 1.4T, but with the nodes shutdown it's only 133G. So, it's best to work into my script to shut down the labs first, then run my backups.