From 15838f72f31a09fcf1d8fa0d8a78dc74256623a8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Gerrit Gogel Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2021 18:58:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index c9cb7fe..ee99589 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -273,6 +273,21 @@ For OAuth the same network problem as with LDAP will occur, but here you will ne caddy.rewrite: /accounts/login* /oauth/login/? ``` +### Garbage Collection +Seafile has a block-based storage backend. This means that every file is associated to one or many blocks. If a file is permanently deleted from the trash bin, those blocks need to be cleared in order to free disk space. This process is called garbage collection. + +You can manually run the garbage collection with `docker exec`, where `seafile-server` is the name of the container running *seafile-server*: +``` +docker exec -it seafile-server /scripts/gc.sh +``` + +You can schedule a cron job for garbage collection, by adding the following environment variable to *seafile-server*: +``` +- GC_CRON=0 6 * * SUN +``` +This would run the garbage collection every sunday at 6AM. + + ### Docker Swarm If you want to deploy this stack on a Docker Swarm with multiple nodes or if you want to run replicas of the frontend (clustering), there are several things you have to consider first.