Artifactory not deleting Unique Snapshots

Question

We have an Artifactory server that is using 220Gb - with the libs-snapshots-local repository utilising 98% of that storage.

When we l

Answer 1

You are right, deployment of a new snapshot is the trigger for deletion of the old ones. Since your 1.23 artifacts explosion is the leftover of the previous (mis)configuration, you're good from now on.

The simplest way to delete the old snapshots is just to deploy another (even dummy) snapshot into 1.23. It will trigger the cleanup.

Another idea might be creating another snapshots repo and moving the last 5 snapshots of 1.23 to it. Then you can safely delete the 1.23 folder and move it from the temporary repo back in.

All those are valid choices for cleaning up one or couple of version, but they won't scale. If you have a lot of versions to cleanup I would recommend writing a simple execution user plugin.

You just get the children of a version directory and delete everything except the few you want to leave.