From 96bd803880b5aab155dae7849d2a4f63e38ae3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jgitta <jgitta@jgitta.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2026 21:20:47 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix: Use NFS warm-storage for backup staging instead of data
 disk
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CRITICAL FIX:
The previous implementation used /mnt/nextcloud-data for staging, which is on
the same 2TB disk as the 1.4TB Nextcloud data. This caused disk full errors:
  1.4TB (data) + 587GB (compressed backup) = 1.987TB > 2TB limit

Solution:
Use /mnt/warm-storage (NFS mount with 900GB free) for backup staging:
  • Sufficient space for 587GB backup file
  • Separate storage from Nextcloud data disk
  • NFS performance acceptable for backup writes
  • Preserves data disk for actual Nextcloud usage

Impact:
- Backup process will no longer fail due to lack of staging space
- Complete 1.4TB backups can now succeed
- Files can be uploaded to B2 without blocking on disk space

Tested: Backup successfully compressed 1.4TB to 587GB before hitting old limit
---
 nextcloud-backup-to-backblaze.sh | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/nextcloud-backup-to-backblaze.sh b/nextcloud-backup-to-backblaze.sh
index 7e79f7e..1cd1946 100755
--- a/nextcloud-backup-to-backblaze.sh
+++ b/nextcloud-backup-to-backblaze.sh
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ BACKUP_DIR="/opt/nextcloud-backup/.backups"
 LOG_DIR="${BACKUP_DIR}/logs"
 TIMESTAMP=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S)
 LOG_FILE="${LOG_DIR}/backup_${TIMESTAMP}.log"
-# Use staging directory on disk with sufficient space (not tmpfs /tmp)
-STAGING_DIR="/mnt/nextcloud-data/.backup-staging"
+# Use warm-storage NFS mount for staging (900GB available, separate from data disk)
+# /mnt/nextcloud-data is 2TB total with 1.4TB data = can't fit 587GB backup
+# /mnt/warm-storage is 900GB NFS with 0% used = sufficient space
+STAGING_DIR="/mnt/warm-storage/.backup-staging"
 TEMP_DIR="${STAGING_DIR}/nextcloud-backup-${TIMESTAMP}"
 
 # Create directories