Is anyone eliminate very old versions from a repository?

[Tania Moreno]

Hello,

We have some projects that have versions old as 10 years and the data base is very big.

Oracle DBA has requested us as Harvest admin to reduce the size of data base.

Using archive or move, is an idea, but, how to keep the projects running?

They have CA Librarian too for mainframe, and Librarian lets them to discard old versions. They want to do the same.


Regards,


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Tania Moreno R.
Senior Consultant
eSoft 2006
Caracas, Venezuela
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[Tania Moreno]

Any ideas?

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[Tania Moreno R.]
[Senior Consultant]
[eSoft 2006]
[Caracas] [Venezuela]
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[Balakrishna Shantamurthy]

HI Tania ,

Engineering team has reached out to your in a separate e-mail communication.
We are trying to capture your requirements and check the possibility of providing solution to your situation.

The mail thread will be used to continue the further discussions.

Regards,
Balakrishna.

[David Day]

Based on the way Harvest builds revisions with pedigrees, I don't think previous revisions can be removed. For example, you can't delete revision 0 from 10 years ago, because every revision since then is built off of that one. What you can do is create a snapshot and then create a new repository based on that snapshot, which will put all the revisions back to 0 and then archive the original repository. 

[Tania Moreno]

Hello,

That is true, but it does not release space at the data base.

Regards,

Tania Moreno R.



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Tania Moreno R.
Senior Consultant
eSoft 2006
Caracas Venezuela
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[David Day]

If there is no need ( such as regulatory reporting) to leave the repository in the database, once you've created the new one, you could delete it.