How to view Red Hat server's last actions, to clear out large backup files?

eiger3970 · 05-31-2015, 11:41 PM

Hello,
my Red Hat server ran auto backups last night and over filled my disk.
The server started playing up with the disk at 100% capacity.

I have cleared some files bringing the disk to 91.3% capacity, however I need to see what the server did last night, to clear the disk back down to around 30%.

The disk back to its original 30% will then allow for this end of the month's auto backup to complete before hitting 100% capacity and messing up the server again.

syg00 · 06-01-2015, 12:55 AM

If it's your server you should know where the backups are going. "ls -Sl" will give you the files in reverse size order (biggest first) - pipe into "head" to get just the first few.
"ls -tl" will do likewise based on time.

All in the manpage.