How Many GB Storage Space is Pure UsingHow Many GB Storage Space is Pure Using

What

Clients might want to know, what is the current size of our Pure data, the question could be like:
Is there a way to find out how many GB storage space we are using in total for repository-purposes (i.e. full-text documents we have attached to our publications, activities etc.)

How

You can not see how much space Pure uses from inside Pure, you need server access to get the accurate numbers, and you need to look at both the application server, and the database server.

In Pure files are stored in the file system, but all metadata and job logs are stored in the database, to make things even more confusing, audit logs are partly stored in the data base, and partly in the file system, so only the latest 100.000 audit entries are in the data base, while the older ones are in zip files on the file system, so you need to add up both numbers to get the correct size of Pure.

On the Pure server, the folder with the data can be found in the Administrator > System settings > Core configuration > Server data dir. This is the folder with sub dirs for storage etc. that Pure normally uses.

In some cases the storage can be placed on other drives/network shares, but in this example picture, this is all below this folder.
So if you get the size of all the files below /data on the Pure server, then you know how much the files, indexes, audit logs etc. takes up.

And then you need the dba's to tell you how much space is the data base takes up to know the size of the meta data and job logs.

If you are only interested in the size of the attached files you should get the size of the folder /data/perm/local on the Pure application server (this path can be found in Administrator > Storage and edit the file storage configuration)

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