It looks like UPDATE_INTERVAL trumps UPDATE_STRATEGY

[ovizii]

With this configuration in my docker compose, photon started updating. Not what I was expecting.

      - UPDATE_STRATEGY=DISABLED
      - UPDATE_INTERVAL=120d
#      - FORCE_UPDATE=TRUE # can force an update upon restart

I have now commented out the UPDATE_INTERVAL and will simply uncomment the FORCE_UPDATE whenever I feel the need for an update.

[ovizii]

That failed spectacularly. If you do not specify UPDATE_INTERVAL the default of 30d is used. So on e has to use this to disable updates:

      - UPDATE_STRATEGY=DISABLED
      - UPDATE_INTERVAL=12000d

[ovizii]

OK, I have a problem. No matter what I try, photon keeps uploading with every restart and on top of that, into the wrong location. Not sure when this behaviour started as it was just purring along for a couple of months.

Data situation:

du -cksh /sgate18TB01/photon_data/*
157G    /sgate18TB01/photon_data/node_1
512     /sgate18TB01/photon_data/temp
157G    total

mounted volume in my compose file:

    volumes:
      - /sgate18TB01/photon_data:/photon/photon_data