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Why is the frozen data not deleted automatically?

knarayana
New Member

I have these settings for my index

maxTotalDataSizeMB = 100000
coldPath = C:/colddb
homePath = C:/db
coldToFrozenDir = C:/frozendb
thawedPath = C:/thaweddb

Data is not deleted as it moves to forzendb.
forzendb is now 128GB.

Not sure why this is not working as expected.

Thanks

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HiroshiSatoh
Champion

The forzen data is not deleted automatically. It is outside the management of splunk. If deletion is necessary, it is necessary to delete it using a shell etc.

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datasearchninja
Communicator

If you want to delete when freezing, do not set a coldToFrozenDir, and then data will not be moved to the frozen directory, but be deleted instead

See https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Indexesconf .

HiroshiSatoh
Champion

The forzen data is not deleted automatically. It is outside the management of splunk. If deletion is necessary, it is necessary to delete it using a shell etc.

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