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Oh, I think you just gave me an idea for a new blueprint...
Honestly, It seems that this is something that should be part of ${service}-manage

On Oct 30, 2014, at 1:47 PM, Morgan Fainberg <morgan.fainberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Abel,
> 
> For Keystone we already have a way to prune out expired records: keystone-manage token_flush
> 
> This can be run via cron (recommended). The reason for the side band tool is that keystone does not have an internal scheduler for periodic tasks (not a common use keystone needs to do across all the functionality) 
> 
> If you have a large number of tokens and use MYSQL, we have logic to help limit he impact to the backend by doing batched flushes.
> 
> I am not sure what the requirements for holding on to data (e.g. Nova instances) once they've been deleted, but I think it is definitely worth setting some clear guidelines on this for each service so it can be followed / implemented as a built in function.
> 
> Cheers,
> Morgan
> 
> Sent via mobile
> 
> On Oct 30, 2014, at 13:20, Abel Lopez <alopgeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> We just had this question come up regarding the labs, but it applies to production as well.
>> 
>> I'm thinking that we need to implement some sort of periodic database pruning. Perhaps like every two months or so, go through all databases, all tables, and do like
>> 
>> delete from FOO where deleted=1 and deleted_at < date_sub(now(), interval 2 month)
>> 
>> Just as an example.
>> 
>> Does anyone have see any issues with purging deleted=1 data?
>> I've seen this be very helpful for things like Keystone tokens, etc.
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