dpaste-docs/docs/management_commands.md

Management Commands

Purge expired snippets

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Snippets are removed as soon as they exceed their expiration date and get fetched by a client, however if they never get fetched this isn’t triggered. dpaste ships with a management command cleanup_snippets that removes these expired snippets.

It’s sufficient to run it daily.

To run it locally do:

$ pipenv run ./managepy cleanup_snippets

Options

--dry-run

Does not actually delete the snippets. This is useful for local testing.

Setup a Crontab

A crontab line might look like:

1 20 * * * /srv/dpaste.org/pipenv run manage.py cleanup_snippets > /dev/null

!!! note "Note"

    If you use the *database* session backend, you may also need to setup a crontab that removes the expired entries from the session database.
    
    See the related [Django Documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/ref/django-admin/#django-admin-clearsessions) for details.