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Tested in VyOS 1.3.1-S1

The "generate tech-support archive" command creates an archive that includes the previous archives
Thus the size of the archive and the space occupied increase exponentially

0 time:

vyos@vyos:~$ ls -al /config/support/
total 8
drwxrwsr-x 2 root vyattacfg 4096 Mar 28 17:09 .
drwxrwsr-x 7 root vyattacfg 4096 Apr 19 12:19 ..

1st time:

vyos@vyos:~$ generate tech-support archive
Saving the archives...
Saved tech-support archival at /opt/vyatta/etc/config/support/vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122230.tgz
vyos@vyos:~$ ls -l /config/support/
total 1156
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1173615 Apr 19 12:22 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122230.tgz

2nd time:

vyos@vyos:~$ generate tech-support archive
Saving the archives...
Saved tech-support archival at /opt/vyatta/etc/config/support/vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122240.tgz
vyos@vyos:~$ ls -al /config/support/
total 3452
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1173615 Apr 19 12:22 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122230.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 2348638 Apr 19 12:22 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122240.tgz

3rd time:

vyos@vyos:~$ generate tech-support archive
Saving the archives...
Saved tech-support archival at /opt/vyatta/etc/config/support/vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122259.tgz
vyos@vyos:~$ ls -l /config/support/
total 11364
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1173615 Apr 19 12:22 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122230.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 2348638 Apr 19 12:22 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122240.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 8107512 Apr 19 12:23 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-04-19-122259.tgz

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Difficulty level
Unknown (require assessment)
Version
VyOS 1.3.1-S1
Why the issue appeared?
Will be filled on close
Is it a breaking change?
Unspecified (possibly destroys the router)
Issue type
Bug (incorrect behavior)

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Mentioned In
1.3.3
1.3.1

Event Timeline

Unknown Object (User) created this task.Apr 19 2022, 12:39 PM
Unknown Object (User) created this object in space S1 VyOS Public.
Viacheslav added a subscriber: Viacheslav.Apr 19 2022, 1:24 PM

It should exclude it https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-op/blob/dfbfeafb1362a2c6934575a984a78fd2524d5720/scripts/tech-support-archive#L54

SrividyaA added a subscriber: SrividyaA.Apr 20 2022, 4:22 PM
m.korobeinikov added a subscriber: m.korobeinikov.EditedApr 22 2022, 1:46 AM

We can solve this problem in three ways.
Now the script (https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-op/blob/29703664633a20385a077083b4393738bdcb7409/scripts/tech-support-archive) creates up to 5 versions of support archives, after which it starts deleting the previous one. The problem is that each new version of the archives contains from 1 to 4 old archives. As a result, the archive can take up a lot of space.

Option one:
Save archives to a folder, that is not included in the folders saved by the script.

now:

DEFAULT_PATH=/opt/vyatta/etc/config/support

after:

DEFAULT_PATH=/usr/support (for example)

option two:
do not allow the script to save old versions.

now:

if (( count >= 5 )); then

after:

if (( count >= 1 )); then

option three:
combine options 1 and 2

pasik added a subscriber: pasik.Apr 22 2022, 7:56 AM
m.korobeinikov added a comment.EditedApr 29 2022, 3:23 AM

https://github.com/vyos/vyatta-op/pull/55

n.fort claimed this task.Apr 29 2022, 10:19 AM
n.fort reassigned this task from n.fort to m.korobeinikov.Apr 29 2022, 10:31 AM
n.fort added a subscriber: n.fort.
Viacheslav changed the task status from Open to Needs testing.May 13 2022, 9:06 AM
Viacheslav added a project: VyOS 1.4 Sagitta.
m.korobeinikov added a comment.May 16 2022, 1:28 AM
vyos@vyos:~$ show version

Version:          VyOS 1.4-rolling-202205150217
Release train:    sagitta

Built by:         [email protected]
Built on:         Sun 15 May 2022 02:17 UTC
Build UUID:       c9d5dd31-17b6-4ed2-b41b-6019b4e7f863
Build commit ID:  d5445064aefe73

Architecture:     x86_64
Boot via:         livecd
System type:      Unknown hypervisor guest

Hardware vendor:  QEMU
Hardware model:   Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
Hardware S/N:
Hardware UUID:    0e1d121f-6ec5-456a-b81a-bab893b8d619

Copyright:        VyOS maintainers and contributors
vyos@vyos:~$ ls -a -l /opt/vyatta/etc/config/support/
total 5860
drwxrwsr-x 1 root vyattacfg     140 May 16 01:27 .
drwxrwsr-x 1 root vyattacfg     140 May 16 01:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1191102 May 16 01:26 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-05-16-012655.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1194629 May 16 01:27 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-05-16-012738.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1197943 May 16 01:27 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-05-16-012743.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1201297 May 16 01:27 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-05-16-012745.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root vyattacfg 1204665 May 16 01:27 vyos.tech-support-archive.2022-05-16-012747.tgz
m.korobeinikov closed this task as Resolved.May 16 2022, 1:29 AM

The command works well.

dmbaturin mentioned this in 1.3.1.Jun 11 2022, 8:40 AM
syncer moved this task from Need Triage to Finished on the VyOS 1.3 Equuleus ( 1.3.1) board.Aug 30 2022, 2:21 PM
dmbaturin mentioned this in 1.3.3.Sep 22 2022, 10:56 AM