Hello,
I have two repositories (Asaru and Horus) that are both group=client and wanted=standard. The other one, Astarte is group=transfer and wanted=standard. Pretty standard I think.
repository mode: direct
trusted repositories: 0
semitrusted repositories: 5
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001 -- web
00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000002 -- bittorrent
58001764-966d-4076-ae99-4ef6de25df39 -- Asaru [here]
8165bdf1-907e-4bbe-9c35-22fbf6f8cb00 -- Astarte [astarte]
cca0c3c8-593a-4395-936c-1093f0f762e8 -- Horus
untrusted repositories: 0
I always sync on the two client repos like that git annex add . && git annex sync --content. The transfer repo is growing larger and larger. git annex dropunused N says, that it could only verify the existence of 0 out of 1 necessary copies.
What is the best way to clean up the transfer repo?
- Make the two client repos trusted? The three repos have been created manually, not through the assistant. Is that what the assistant does, too?
- Try to get the two client repos into touch with each other and try to use
dropunsed --from=astarte?
What is the recommended way for that?
Thanks, Florian
Ok, I try to do 2) but it still fails:
all repositories are reachable directly.
Normally, files should be dropped from the transfer repository once they have reached all known client repositories. The drop should be done by the client repositories, so the transfer repo doesn't need access to the client repos to verify that they have a copy.
But your problem is with unused files that are hanging around in the transfer repo. This can happen if a file reaches the transfer repo and then gets deleted from a client, and so the other clients never download it.
To clean out those files, run:
git annex dropunused --from astarte --forceYou need to "use the force" because the unused file is only present in the transfer repo. If you want to get rid of its content for good, that's fine. A safer option is to move the unused file to the local repo:
git annex move --unused --from astarte