Best practices for deleting historical attachments

Question

We are looking to archive and purge all attachment files that are older than 3 years in our internal hosted Jira Data Center on Azure. The attachments are taking up most of the disk space on Jira hosted servers.

As attachments are stored as a combination of files on the server's file system and metadata in the database. Can anyone share the best and safe recommended practices for bulk archive/delete attachments in detailed steps?

VVC · Answer

Thanks @Matteo Vecchiato for sharing this solution. I will give this a try and see if it works as expected.

Matteo Vecchiato · Answer

Hi  @VVC

I don't recommend to delete the attachments directly in the file system.

I would recommend to follow this recommendation in the article: https://confluence.atlassian.com/enterprise/issues-with-too-many-attachments-1402420952.html#:~:text=Option%201:%20Delete%20extra%20attachments,Specify%20rule%20details%20as%20follows:

I hope it helps