Server backups persisting?

[MrQu33f]

Hi there,

I've been away and found my server had shutdown. Back now and restarted it but it seems to not be stuck on version 0.218.21
I'm not brilliant with containers etc. I'm running them from Portainer as a stack as follows:
Is the image updated or am I doing something wrong?

version: "3"
services:

valheim:
container_name: Valheim-stack
image: mbround18/valheim:latest
ports:
- 2456:2456/udp
- 2457:2457/udp
- 2458:2458/udp
environment:
TYPE: Vanilla
PORT: 2456
NAME: *********
WORLD: *********
PASSWORD: *******
MODIFIERS: portals=casual
ENABLE_CROSSPLAY: 1
TZ: *********
PUBLIC: 1
AUTO_UPDATE: 0
AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE: "0 1 * * "
AUTO_BACKUP: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE: "/15 * * * "
AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE: 3
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN: 1
UPDATE_ON_STARTUP: 0
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- //:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
- //:/home/steam/valheim
- /********/:/home/steam/backups

[MrQu33f]

nevermind, I just deleted the folder except for world data and repulled. All working now

[mbround18]

Good to close?

[MrQu33f]

Yup all's well

[MrQu33f]

I do have another issue thats arose over the last few days.
My docker storage volume was full and after investigating I realised it was valheims backup folder was what was doing it.
this is my stack:

version: "3"
services:
valheim:
container_name: Valheim-stack
image: mbround18/valheim:latest
ports:
- 2456:2456/udp
- 2457:2457/udp
- 2458:2458/udp
environment:
TYPE: Vanilla
PORT: 2456
NAME: Egg with Legs Dedicated Ashlands Server
WORLD: Egg with Legs
PASSWORD: ********
MODIFIERS: portals=casual
ENABLE_CROSSPLAY: 1
TZ: EUROPE/LONDON
PUBLIC: 1
AUTO_UPDATE: 1
AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE: "0 1 * "
AUTO_BACKUP: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE: "0 1 * "
AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE: 3
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN: 1
UPDATE_ON_STARTUP: 0
restart: always
volumes:
- /srv/Appdata/valheim-al/:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
- /srv/Appdata/valheim-al/:/home/steam/valheim
- /srv/Appdata/valheim-al/backups/:/home/steam/backups

I modified it the other day to reduce the frequency but fear i've done something wrong. I just looked and saw it was taking a backup and in the backup folder the latest tar.gz file was being generated and was over 500gb??

I've made a new stack as per Claude.ai suggestions but in the mean time is there anything absurd that i'm missing?

version: "3"
services:

valheim:
container_name: Valheim-stack
image: mbround18/valheim:latest
ports:
- 2456:2456/udp
- 2457:2457/udp
- 2458:2458/udp
environment:
TYPE: Vanilla
PORT: 2456
NAME: Egg with Legs Dedicated Ashlands Server
WORLD: Egg with Legs
PASSWORD: ********
MODIFIERS: portals=casual
ENABLE_CROSSPLAY: 1
TZ: EUROPE/LONDON
PUBLIC: 1
AUTO_UPDATE: 1
AUTO_UPDATE_SCHEDULE: "0 0 * * 0"
AUTO_BACKUP: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_SCHEDULE: "0 1 * * *"
AUTO_BACKUP_REMOVE_OLD: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_DAYS_TO_LIVE: 14
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_UPDATE: 1
AUTO_BACKUP_ON_SHUTDOWN: 1
UPDATE_ON_STARTUP: 0
restart: always
volumes:
- /srv/Appdata/valheim-al/:/home/steam/.config/unity3d/IronGate/Valheim
- /srv/Appdata/valheim-al/:/home/steam/valheim
- /srv/Data/backup/Valheim-al/backups/:/home/steam/backups

[mbround18]

that looks pretty good, could you give me an ls -l in the backup folder?

[MrQu33f]

I'm away on business, I've got remote desktop on the host so I'll see if I can remote in and do it but my internet is flakey. Fingers crossed I can do it otherwise I'll have to do it in a month when I get back

[mbround18]

No worries, ill flag as awaiting response for now while you are on our trip :P

[MrQu33f]

Hi,
I totallyt forgot about this issue but just wanted to drop a message to say that it is all behaving as expected now.
I moved the backup folder to a seperate drive before I left a few months ago and now its maintaining 3x backups that are approx 1.5gb each. Far more manageable than the madness before.
I guess I must've put a wrong variable in my stack or something. Feel free to close the issue :D