So I figured out why Bluehost did a sudden server migration on me without any warning.

I sorta forgot to add a flag and exclusion to the full backup script. I didn’t tell it to ignore symbolic links and the backup directory. On the account site, it backs up all the directories in the home directory. There are a couple links to logs, cache, and then there’s also a link called www that points to public_html.

So not only did it backup public_html twice, it also backed up the backups.

I noticed this last night when I started the weekly backup on my machine that pulls down the backups and the full backup was 27GB.

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