Sebastian J. Schultheiss wrote, On 03/14/2011 10:31 AM:
> Is there a way to completely delete a user and their data at the same
> time? We would like to keep published pages and shared data though.
>
Do you really want to delete all the user's records from the database ? I think
the database size is tiny compared to the actual files on disk, keeping all
database records forever shouldn't be such a problem.
Regarding files,
It's my understanding (galaxy people, correct me if I'm wrong), that once a
dataset is marked as "deleted" in "history_dataset_association" table,
it's as if the user deleted the dataset by himself.
So if you run a query that sets "deleted=true", the galaxy clean-up scripts
will take it from there and will eventually delete the dataset ("eventually",
because there are couple of clean up steps and scripts).
Something like:
update history_dataset_association set deleted=true where id = NNNNNN ;
(After finding the ID with previous queries).
Same caveat as before: this is very messy, don't do it without testing and
verification.
> I know it sort of counters the dogma of having everything
> reproducible, but our users upload really big datasets and we cannot
> keep adding new disk space every month, therefore we would like an
> expiration date on anything that is not published or shared and used.
> I guess we can modify the SQL queries to include some of the dates
> stored.
>
I agree, same problem for us.
This is actually something I would like to request as a feature:
"reproducibility" doesn't require all the files, all the time - only the first
file (let say: a FASTQ file) and the meta-data for downstream files (jobs,
tools, parameters) are needed.
It would be great if there was a way for users to see the datasets (and the
jobs, parameters, etc.) of all their datasets (ever), even if I deleted the
underlying physical file.
Unfortunately, the current method is that once a dataset is marked as "purged"
(meaning the file was deleted), it will never appear again inside galaxy.
-gordon
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