Remove `borg compact` from default backup script

This is a quite long running operation. It might be better to do this in
the night on a server which stores the backup repo and not let the
client PCs do the job on every backup.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/backup.sh b/backup.sh
index 6666527..eef5cc3 100755
--- a/backup.sh
+++ b/backup.sh
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ ADMIN='admin@example.org'
 REPO='/srv/borg'
 MARIADB_BACKUP_DIR='/var/local/mariadb_export'
 
-# create full backup for mariadb to ensure consistent state
+# create full backup for mariadb to ensure consistent state (optional)
 rm -rf ${MARIADB_BACKUP_DIR}
 mkdir -p ${MARIADB_BACKUP_DIR}
 chmod 700 ${MARIADB_BACKUP_DIR}
@@ -60,12 +60,5 @@ then
 	exit 1
 fi
 
-# reduce repository disk usage by optimizing the repository storage
-if ! borg compact "${REPO}"
-then
-	echo "❌ Backup: borg compact failed on ${HOST}." | go-sendxmpp "${ADMIN}"
-	exit 1
-fi
-
 # inform admin about success if not exited before
 echo "✅ System backup succeeded on ${HOST}." | go-sendxmpp "${ADMIN}"