How to perform the housekeeping of old attachment and issues

[Ram]

We are running 8.x jira dc would like to housekeep the old attachments(at story/issues/ zephyr test execution ) which are grater than a year 

Can advise on the best option to perform this .

[Carlos Garcia Navarro]

Hi @Ram ,

Re: attachments, and according to https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRASERVER-72553, you could run a cronjob at the OS level to delete attachments or use some suggested plugins as described in the 'workarounds' section. Or you could move them somewhere else if you want to keep them.

Re: issues, you could archive them as described here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/archiving-an-issue-968669980.html

You may find this article interesting too: https://confluence.atlassian.com/clean/clean-up-your-jira-instance-1018788592.html

[Hua Soon SIM _Akeles_]

Hi @Ram

You may want to check out Issue Archiver & Attachment Housekeeper for Jira Data Center.

The benefits of the app

• Safe - "soft deleted" attachments can be restored with no data loss within the retention period
• Traceability - keeps the metadata records of the removed attachments
  • E.g. filename, creator, datetime, size
• Flexible - able to select the types of attachments and issues for bulk removal
  • E.g. housekeep support zip for tickets resolved > 6 months
• Reliable - automatically processing in the backend without causing performance issues
  • E.g. we tested housekeeping 1 million attachments

You can check out the following resources too

• Benefits of housekeeping attachments on Jira
• Different types of Files of varying importance (Why some files are unnecessary?)

It is also a good practice to housekeep unwanted attachments before migrating to Jira Cloud.