[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Pruning temporary files?

[Andrew Morrison]

Sorry, my previous email contained everything I know on the topic of 
temp files.

Andrew.


On 12/12/2022 17:46, Tom Hanstra wrote:
> Thanks, Andrew.
>
> I was waiting for someone with a bit more experience with 
> ArchivesSpace to chime in on this. In my case, we have a number of old 
> jruby directories which contain a set of jar files. What should be 
> cleaning these up? Whatever it might be, it is missing doing that 
> cleanup on my site.  I'm curious how things are supposed to work.
>
> As for cleanup, if the service is somehow not cleaning these up 
> properly, then my usual methodology is to have a cleanup script (or 
> manual intervention) come behind and delete everything which is a 
> certain number of days old. I would guess anything older than 30 days 
> in that directory is fair game for deletion. Do you see anything wrong 
> with that?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
> On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 3:52 AM Andrew Morrison 
> <andrew.morrison at bodleian.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>     The tmp folder is used to store files which should be deleted
>     automatically after the process that created them finishes, but
>     that doesn't always happen. On the system I run, it has grown to
>     0.4G in four years, mostly files created during indexing. Some
>     files are also written there during startup.
>
>     So you should be able to stop the ArchivesSpace service, delete
>     everything inside the tmp folder, then restart, although I've
>     never done so myself. But first it would be worth investigating
>     when the bulk of the 9.4G was created. If it has built up over
>     time, the majority before the last restart, it is less of a
>     concern than if most of it is new.
>
>     Andrew.
>
>
>     On 09/12/2022 00:27, Brown, Amanda wrote:
>>     Kia ora koutou,
>>     Our ArchivesSpace UAT has run out of space, and the information
>>     from our developer is :
>>     The space is mainly being taken up by temporary files created by
>>     the archivesspace app itself, eg:
>>     antbrown at ccc-dhr-uat-as1:/opt/archivesspace3/data$ sudo -u
>>     archivesspace du -hs tmp
>>     9.4G    tmp
>>     Some of these files are used for running the app and it's not
>>     obvious from
>>     https://archivesspace.github.io/tech-docs/readme_implement.html
>>     which are safe to delete.
>>     If you were able to post to the mailing list asking which files
>>     are safe to delete in the data/tmp directory, we could write a
>>     script to make sure it's cleaned daily for example.
>>     Any suggestions which files are safe to delete in the data/tmp
>>     directory?
>>     Ngā mihi
>>     Amanda
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