From http://archiva.apache.org/docs/1.3.1/adminguide/repositories.html:

> Please take note that the by number of days old criteria is activated by 
> default (set to 100 days). In order to de-activate it and use the by 
> retention count criteria, you must set the Repository Purge By Days Older 
> field to 0. Another thing to note here is that if the by number of days old 
> criteria is activated, the retention count would still be respected (See the 
> Repository Purge By Days Older section below for more details) but not the 
> other way around.


So in your case, it'll keep the greater of the last 30 days worth, or the last 
5 snapshots.

- Brett

On 08/09/2010, at 11:26 AM, Shelley, Ryan wrote:

> Ok, I'll give that a try.  One last question.  If we have the repository scan 
> set to delete snapshots older than 30 days or 5 snapshots, which takes 
> precedence?  Say I have 100 snapshots evenly spaced out across 40 days.  I'm 
> assuming after the purge, I'd have 30 days worth of snapshots and the 5 
> snapshot count doesn't come into play?  I'm thinking we have our snapshot 
> retention set too high, as well.
> 
> Thanks from the prompt response, Wendy.  Much appreciated!
> 
> -Ryan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy Smoak [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 6:04 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.1
> 
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 8:39 PM, Shelley, Ryan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Would I have to re-configure everything after the upgrade?  Repositories and 
>> Users, etc?
> 
> No, that's stored elsewhere.  There is a separate user database, don't
> delete that one.  The configuration is in archiva.xml in newer
> versions.  I'm not that familiar with 1.1 to be honest.
> 
> The database has the info for the .../browse/... urls, which it can
> re-construct when it scans all the poms.
> 
> Now that I think of it, you'll probably want to delete the indexes
> also (in the .index directory?) and let it rebuild those as well.
> 
> --
> Wendy

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