[ckan-dev] FileStore migration - safe to delete pairtree_root directory?

Wed Sep 7 11:44:59 UTC 2016

Hi Stefan,

In theory the migration script should copy the files to their new
location, so if you have tested the new links and are working fine I
think it's safe to delete the old pairtree directory

Adrià

On 6 September 2016 at 12:46, Stefan Oderbolz <stefan.oderbolz at liip.ch> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> we recently made a CKAN upgrade for a client from CKAN 2.2 to CKAN 2.5, and
> in the course of that we ran the filestore-migrate command
> (http://docs.ckan.org/en/latest/maintaining/filestore.html#migration-from-2-1-to-2-2)
> to finally move to a more stable FileStore implementation (we had plenty of
> issues with the old one).
>
> After the migration I noticed that now doubled the storage needed, and a
> quick look in the migration code seems to back this up, as all the files are
> written again using the new filestore.
>
> So now I have the following directories with their size:
>
> 16G     /var/www/ckan/default/pairtree_root
>
> 12G     /var/www/ckan/default/resources
>
>
> I know it's not a lot of data, but I still wonder: is it safe to simply
> remove the /var/www/ckan/default/pairtree_root directory? Has anyone already
> tried that?
>
>
> Best regards Stefan
>
>
>
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