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Smart Archiving Tutorial 0 hr 15 min
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Smart Archiving - Optimize Storage and Ensure Compliance
Learn to define and implement robust archiving policies to reduce storage costs, ensure long-term compliance, and boost system performance.
Course Level: Intermediate
Requirements: A foundational understanding of repository management and data retention concepts.
Prerequisites: None. Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory or DevOps administration is helpful but not required.
Course Description: As artifact volumes grow, most organisations face the same problem: repositories bloated with inactive files, rising storage costs, and growing uncertainty about compliance with data retention requirements. Left unmanaged, this becomes harder and more expensive to resolve over time. This course covers how Smart Archiving in the JFrog Platform lets administrators automate artifact lifecycle management — reducing costs and maintaining compliance without putting active assets at risk.
Topics Covered:
Requirements: A foundational understanding of repository management and data retention concepts.
Prerequisites: None. Familiarity with JFrog Artifactory or DevOps administration is helpful but not required.
Course Description: As artifact volumes grow, most organisations face the same problem: repositories bloated with inactive files, rising storage costs, and growing uncertainty about compliance with data retention requirements. Left unmanaged, this becomes harder and more expensive to resolve over time. This course covers how Smart Archiving in the JFrog Platform lets administrators automate artifact lifecycle management — reducing costs and maintaining compliance without putting active assets at risk.
Topics Covered:
- Introduction to Smart Archiving: Understand the purpose and value of a well-defined Archive Policy — and the cost of unmanaged artifact sprawl on storage, performance, and compliance.
- Creating Archiving Policies: Step-by-step guidance on defining rules that align your Archive Policy with your organisation's retention needs and business objectives.
- Dry Runs: Validate your policy before activation to identify pitfalls and confirm expected behaviour — preventing unintended file removal before it happens.
- Activating a Policy: Implementing your defined archiving rules in a live environment and monitoring outcomes.
- Restoring Archived Files: Locating and retrieving archived assets using preserved metadata — without data loss or broken audit trails.
- Best Practices: Strategies to avoid common pitfalls in policy design, maintenance, and scaling your archiving approach across large repository estates.