/var is getting full

[Derek Broughton]

Graham Watkins wrote:

> Amedee Van Gasse (on Ubuntu mailing lists) wrote:
>>
>> sudo du -hs /var
>>
> 
> sudo du -hs /var/*
> 
> 3.3G    /var/backup
...
> 
> As/ /I wrote before, /var/backups  is taking up most of the space and
> contains a single file named
> 
> 2009-09-26_10.27.20.524996.graham-desktop.ful
> 
> I think, and please correct me if you know different, that this is a
> legacy file from the sbackup program which I had installed for about a
> week and then removed.  I have no idea why it would save a backup in /var
> though.  

Because it's "simple backup".  I installed it once and almost immediately 
removed it because imo it tried to make things far _too_ simple.  It made a 
lot of assumptions that obviously worked fine for its developer, but they 
were too simplistic to be very useful in a general case.
-- 
derek