Are there any automated tools or built-in features that can simplify this process and manage disk space more effectively to clean up outdated packages on robot servers??
Alternate way is UiPath Orchestrator Features:
- Package Retention Settings: In UiPath Orchestrator, you can configure retention policies to automatically delete packages after a certain period. This can be done through the Orchestrator interface:
- Navigate to the Packages page in Orchestrator.
- Configure the retention settings under Settings to specify how long packages should be kept before being deleted.
Generally we do it manually but its time consuming or u can delete the nuget folder so that robot downloads it again
- Accidental Deletion:
Risk: If the retention settings are not configured correctly, you might accidentally delete packages that are still needed for ongoing or scheduled processes.
Mitigation: Carefully review and test retention policies in a staging environment before applying them to production. - Version Management Issues:
*Risk: Automatically deleting old versions might cause issues if there’s a need to roll back to a previous version for any reason.
Mitigation: Ensure that critical versions are retained or archived separately if needed. Consider configuring retention settings to retain a specific number of versions or a set time frame.
I think that is for Orchestrator’s library, not the files copied to robot servers.
@riyabanerjee we are also struggling with this, and have found no tool nor other way to do it automatically.
One thing we did do, which conserves disk space, is to set it so that packages are not stored in user folders - which results in multiple copies of every package on the server (one for each robot Windows account). We made it so all users share a common storage location for packages:
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Thanks for the approach @postwick
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