Package retention and forcing cleanup

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#1

We installed a new Octopus Server last month, and in less than 30 days, we’ve filled our 50GB App Drive. I looked and noticed that I had the Library\Packages set to keep everything. I’ve now set it to only keep 30 days, but that still means it won’t clean anything up yet.

My question is 2 fold

  1. if I set the cleanup to 10 days (for now), is there a way to force the cleanup agent to run?
  2. does the cleanup agent also clean up deployed releases? IE: If a release is in Qual for 45 days, and it needs to be promoted to Production, what happens?
#2

Hi Chase,

Thanks for reaching out.

  1. You cannot manually force the cleanup. What you can do though is go to the Tasks menu, look for an older cleanup task and re-run it.

  2. The deployed packages are not affected by the Repository Retention found on Library\Packages. Once they get deployed, they are affected by the Retention Policy* set on Library\Lifecycles\[lifecycle name]. On that menu you’ll be able to set a retention policy for each phase of your lifecycle. This retention policies will get executed at the end of each deployment.

Hope that helps!

Dalmiro

#4