So just got to work this morning to find that my Unifi server is not working. Ut ohhh
Now i host on a cloud VPS so getting remote console is super easy but i could also ssh to do it.
Logging into the unit i seen java complaining about running out of something, usually memory as its a hog.
Didn't think to check disk space but alas it was
Trying to find out where the consumption was unifi logs?
nope not here!
system log?
Nope not here!
Doing a google i found a command to search the file system:
Which will find the size of each folder, sort it and then show the first 20 lines.
It was the unifi DB folder!
So what to do? i deleted the 3 month old backups to get back 2GB of space for the time being to get the unifi controller up and running.
Now the fun starts.
To start unifi it can be "sudo service unifi start"
If your looking for more verbosity on output try /etc/init.d/unifi stop then /etc/init.d/unifi start
Luckily this time there was no harm. The server started up within 5 minutes.
What to do? Well this was a 2.49 a month server with 100+ sites so i bit the bullet and upgraded it to a 4.90 a month plan with twice as much storage space!
Download latest backup
I did a service unifi stop before proceeding.
Rescale the server
Re-start
Done
Now i host on a cloud VPS so getting remote console is super easy but i could also ssh to do it.
Logging into the unit i seen java complaining about running out of something, usually memory as its a hog.
Didn't think to check disk space but alas it was
Code:
root@unifi:/usr/lib/unifi/logs# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 959M 0 959M 0% /dev
tmpfs 195M 656K 194M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 19G 18G 0 100% /
tmpfs 973M 0 973M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 973M 0 973M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 195M 0 195M 0% /run/user/0
root@unifi:/usr/lib/unifi/logs#
Code:
root@unifi:/usr/lib/unifi/logs# du -h
4.0K ./remote
398M .
root@unifi:/usr/lib/unifi/logs#
system log?
Code:
root@unifi:/var/log# du -h
4.0K ./unattended-upgrades
4.0K ./dist-upgrade
4.0K ./lxd
4.0K ./unifi/remote
398M ./unifi
4.0K ./landscape
4.0K ./mongodb
801M ./journal/cdbb43b3e6cf4f3eb5e4fb9b5eccfa51
8.1M ./journal/ab7ef0517ccd4fbfa79a76fb604e76a6
809M ./journal
68K ./apt
1.6G .
root@unifi:/var/log#
Doing a google i found a command to search the file system:
Code:
du -a / | sort -n -r | head -n 20
It was the unifi DB folder!
So what to do? i deleted the 3 month old backups to get back 2GB of space for the time being to get the unifi controller up and running.
Now the fun starts.
To start unifi it can be "sudo service unifi start"
If your looking for more verbosity on output try /etc/init.d/unifi stop then /etc/init.d/unifi start
Luckily this time there was no harm. The server started up within 5 minutes.
What to do? Well this was a 2.49 a month server with 100+ sites so i bit the bullet and upgraded it to a 4.90 a month plan with twice as much storage space!
Download latest backup
I did a service unifi stop before proceeding.
Rescale the server
Re-start
Done