Retention Policy

cstokes · October 23, 2014, 7:27pm

Hello,

I am noticing tentacles holding on to application files from months ago. I have my policy set to only keep 1 release on the tentacle. Also packages that are here : C:\Octopus\Applications.Tentacle\Packages are not being deleted. This folder just grows on all my tentacle machines. Anytime I have to delete a release and recreate it (ex. to test out a new step in the deploy process) the release is just duplicated and I end up with multiples of the same release (ex. 400, 400_1, 400_2, etc). I would rather have this release deleted and then recreated.

Thanks,

Corey

cstokes · October 23, 2014, 7:27pm

The old tentacle version files are also being kept which should be cleaned also.

Paul_Stovell · October 23, 2014, 10:20pm

Hi Corey,

Can you attach:

A deployment log (http://docs.octopusdeploy.com/display/OD/Get+the+raw+output+from+a+task) from a deployment which should have applied the retention policy
On the Tentacle, in the Applications directory, you’ll find a DeploymentJournal.xml file. Can you attach that too.

This should give us the information we need to investigate why they aren’t applying.

Paul

Dmitry_Lobanov · October 30, 2014, 9:21pm

Yeah, we are also having the similar problem! Tentacles are not wiped as we need it and configured them to do it

henrik · October 31, 2014, 2:24am

Hi Dmitry,

Can you please send through the full deployment log (link in the response from Paul above) from a deployment that should have applied the retention policy, and the DeploymentJournal.xml file from C:\Octopus\Applications\.Tentacle (or the applications folder you have specified).

This will help us investigate why the retention policy is not being applied.

Thank you and warm regards,
Henrik Andersson