Hi!
I am the admin/instructor for my team's corporate Moodle 3.6v instance.
I was warned of a very high server volume usage by the team's DBA and on investigation using the CLI, I found that the .mbz backups being stored in /data/moodledata/filedir dated back to Oct 2020 on a weekly basis. I adjusted the cron and tasks using the GUI, so nothing over 5 backups is saved. When I checked back using the CLI, the updated cron task has run successfully, but the older backups still exist.
I tried installing and running Moosh and after unsuccessful attempts to deploy, figured that due to a php version incompatibility,
I have to find a manual way to delete these .mbz files from filedir and associated links without causing the entire prod. environment to come down. Please advise.
Other observation to share-
I cannot see these old backup files under the respective courses using the GUI.
Under the courses where I did see backups that I did not require, I deleted them. When they showed up in trashdir, I deleted them manually using the CLI.
Thanks!
Aarthi