From: <65s.mg(a)atlas.cz>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files
To: <mediawiki-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
If you don't to restore them, then you can delete the whole archive
directory.
Thanks, will do a complete backup then delete them.
From: "Herta Van den Eynde"
<herta.vandeneynde(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files
I do not really know, though it would seem logical that you can remove
them. But if you're sure you don't need the content anymore, and your
main concern is disk space, I suppose a safe way to deal with this is
to replace the content with an empty string.
Still, if the images/archive folder is only a few GB in size, I
wouldn't bother. Disk space isn't that expensive.
Hi, no my concern is not disk space, I have a 250GB drive, and apache/
documents is only 2.6 GB.
However, I have to reboot from an external drive to create an image
with NetRestore, and then the wiki is down.
NetRestore is asymmetrical, it can restore from a image in 5-10
minutes, but takes 40-50 minutes to create that image.
So, I was trying to minimize down time. The smaller the amount of
data, the shorter the duration.
Thanks for your feedback,
Frank Fulchiero
Digtial Media Specialist
Connecticut College