We ran it on: http://etd.sun.ac.za using DSpace 1.5.2 with no problems.
On 12 March 2013 15:58, Michael White <michael.wh...@stir.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Running DSpace v1.6.2 (JSPUI).
>
> Our DSpace server ran out of disk space "unexpectedly" (as we thought we
> had allowed for substantial growth) and I have now determined it is because
> of a huge amount of "orphaned" content in our Assetstore.
>
> Looking at our bitstream table, there are 38,488 rows but 22,287 of them
> are marked as "deleted=true".
>
> I have determined that this "orphaned content" is a result of the
> integration between our CRIS system (Converis) and DSpace - each time a
> Publication record (that has full text attached and that has already been
> exported to DSpace) is updated in our CRIS it updates the corresponding
> record in DSpace - only it does this by deleting the existing record and
> creating a new one with the same handle, which results in the files
> belonging to the deleted record lying around in the Assetstore as orphaned
> bitstreams.
>
> So, I've been reading up in the manual, and I note the existence of the
> "/dspace/bin/cleanup" script which I believe will resolve this problem by
> deleting the "old" rows from the bitstream table and the corresponding
> files in the assetstore (?).
>
> However, before I run this and potentially muck everything up, I was
> hoping that someone could confirm that this script will do what I'm after,
> and that it will be able to handle such a "large" cleanup? And if there are
> any other gotchas or advice relating to this that anyone out there can
> offer?
>
> I'll backup the assetstore and DB before doing anything, but any advice or
> reassurance would be most welcome as I'm obviously nervous about running
> something that could, potentially, do more harm than good :-).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
> P.S. If there is anyone else out there with an integration between
> Converis and DSpace, you might also want to look into this!
>
> Michael White
> eLearning Liaison and Development (eLD)
> Information Services
> S8, Library
> University of Stirling
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