Re: EPICS Archiver Appliance - Auto-delete Old Data

["Wilson, Andy \(DLSLtd, RAL, LSCI\) via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Rebecca,

You could do this by configuring the storage URLs for a PV via policies.py, with the last entry as "blackhole://localhost"; then the ETL will delete the data under the specified conditions.

Some of the docs for putting together the URLs are here https://slacmshankar.github.io/epicsarchiver_docs/api/edu/stanford/slac/archiverappliance/PlainPB/PlainPBStoragePlugin.html

Here's a bit of policies.py where for certain PVs we delete the data after 6 months.

        if userPolicyOverride == 'some-example-policy':
            keep_months = 6
        [...]

        # hold - gather is the minimum number of files that will be retained
        # Empirically it seems to hold one less than requested, so we add two.
        hold = keep_months + 2
        gather = 1

        sts_url = 'pb://localhost?name=STS&rootFolder=${ARCHAPPL_SHORT_TERM_FOLDER}&partitionGranularity=PARTITION_15MIN&consolidateOnShutdown=true'
        mts_url = 'pb://localhost?name=MTS&rootFolder=${ARCHAPPL_MEDIUM_TERM_FOLDER}&partitionGranularity=PARTITION_DAY&hold=2&gather=1'
        lts_url = 'pb://localhost?name=LTS&rootFolder=${ARCHAPPL_LONG_TERM_FOLDER}&partitionGranularity=PARTITION_MONTH&hold=%d&gather=%d' % (hold, gather)
        blackhole_url = 'blackhole://localhost'
        data_stores = [sts_url, mts_url, lts_url, blackhole_url]

Kind regards,

Andy

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Sent: Monday, August 1, 2022 10:25
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Subject: EPICS Archiver Appliance - Auto-delete Old Data

 

Hello TechTalk,

 

I am using EPICS Archiver Appliance and I am interested in automatically deleting data that is older than a certain threshold. E.g. only keep the last 2 years of data.

 

Has anybody already done this? Does anyone have any ideas about a good way to approach this problem?

 

Kind regards,

 

Rebecca Harding (she/her)

Controls Software Engineer

Central Laser Facility

Science and Technology Facilities Council

rebecca.harding at stfc.ac.uk

01235 445129

 

 

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