Hi guys,
I’m a bit new to deadline. Is there any design in deadline for removing old auxiliary files together with the records ?
- Nicky
Hi,
No worries. Let’s see if we can help here. In short, yes to answer your question. You need House Cleaning & Job Cleanup , both under Monitor → Tools → Super User Mode → “Configure Repository Options…”:
House Cleaning:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ings-label
Automatic Job Cleanup is part of House Cleaning, so configure your settings here:
docs.thinkboxsoftware.com/produc … ml#cleanup
It’s kind of working. Thanks ~
May I confirm that to have the auxiliary files deleted together with the job I could set the “Hours after a job is deleted before it is purged from the database” to 0 ?
- Nicky
The aux files should be deleted with the job after it’s sat in purgatory for two hours. By default, Deadline waits a configurable amount of time before truely deleting jobs in case you wanted to un-delete them:
If the jobs are removed from there, but their auxiliary files are still around that is likely either a bug or a permissions problem. The permissions problem is easy to check. Just record the job id of a job to be deleted, wait for it to be removed, then try and delete the associated folder from “[repo]\jobs” on a machine where a Slave or Pulse is running.
I see. Thx !