#1 2015-07-01 13:01:05

zyotich

How to best manage storage space on a self-hosted server

We have managed a self-hosted server since 2011 and have periodically increased our partition size to accommodate more stored content, mostly recorded meetings.

My question is what is the best way to delete old content that is not being used any more. We have tried to rely on users to delete it themselves but have not had much success with this approach. We have also tried deleting folders from the server itself but this doesn't delete the links on the front end which is acceptable but confusing and we fear may cause database problems down the road.

The best way I've found to delete content is in the Disk Usage area in the Admin area of Connect Central as it deletes the links from the front end as well but the problem is that data can not be sorted by date only by size, name and type.

Does anyone have a better way to manage deletions?

Last edited by zyotich (2015-07-01 13:06:21)

jonat

Re: How to best manage storage space on a self-hosted server

We have the same exact problem.

What we did is that we created an application using the API that list EVERY recording sort by date or whatever. Our interface allow us to CHECK one or many recording and delete them (still using the API). This is way more clean.. but we had to do some development to get it to work..

Still.. This could be an option in the administration view, I can't keep everything forever and I can't delete everything just because it's old..

Last edited by jonat (2015-07-23 10:10:32)