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Hi John,<br>
<br>
My "official" solution to this is to use the new setting<br>
'defaultNumberOfDaysToRetain'<br>
and set this to your normal short lifetime.<br>
Set<br>
'numberOfDaysToRetain'<br>
to the much longer time you occasionally need.<br>
<br>
Most people won't bother changing the life time on the "new
drop-off" form from the default value it gives them (the short one).
But if they need to, they can increase it up to the maximum you've
set (the long one).<br>
<br>
But yes, you're quite right, just tweaking the "lifeseconds" value
in the relevant record in the "dropoff" table should do the trick
for you.<br>
<br>
The instance of ZendTo I run for the University of Southampton (my
employer) has recently been getting a bit big. We had to increase
its drop-off space from 3 TB to 4 TB the other week. To help rein
this in, we've just dropped the default lifetime from 32 days to 22,
while leaving the maximum lifetime still at 32 days. Hopefully in a
month's time, we'll start to see average disk usage drop a bit.<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Jules.<br>
<br>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/11/2020 17:38, John Thurston via
ZendTo wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:WM!996ab980d91f34c7aaa1f7eb24be36a1065765746c96da92d28a2cb998448577c11f84242a7b61eb11ebc18fadf20abe!@mx.jul.es">We
have a fairly short retention-period in ZendTo. Occasionally, we
have need for a "drop" to be be available longer. There does not
seem to be any way for this availability to be any longer than
"numberOfDaysToRetain", and that limit is the same for all users.
<br>
<br>
It does appear, however, that the lifetime is an attribute of each
"drop", and it is computed and stored at creation. Would extending
the lifetime of a specific "drop" be as simple as reaching into
the database and adjusting the value of "lifeseconds" on the
specified "drop"?
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
(Why not just increase the value of "numberOfDaysToRetain"?
Because the occasional increased duration may need to be 10x or
20x the normal duration. And that would be way too long to have
available for everything.)
<br>
<br>
<br>
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