On Sep 13, 2012, at 10:37 PM, Derrick Lin wrote:
> hi guys,
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> I have been trying to clean up some old histories and datasets on our local galaxy. I have spotted one very old dataset file with big size didn't get removed no matter what.
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> I went to check the reports webapp, that dataset isn't on the largest unpurged data files list (despite it has bigger size).
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> Then I moved on to checking the database, no history or library associates with that dataset. Finally, I found its trace in job_to_input_dataset, so I could identified the job id and found that it's the file created by history Export to File.
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> I also find relevant entry in job_export_history_archive. Since such datasets are not associated with any history, library, the documented dataset cleanup method does not work on them.
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> Any suggestion?
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> Regards,
> Derrick