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What exactly are Binaries in Artifactory


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In Artifactory, under the Storage in Monitoring tab, the Binaries size is 1.57 GB, whereas the Artifacts size is just 6.27 MB. What exactly are Binaries in Artifactory, as they are taking a lot of Storage.

Is it possible to delete these Binaries without affecting the Artifacts?


Solution

  • Binaries size = sum of the sizes all the binaries you uploaded

    Artifacts size = sum of the size of all the artifacts stored

    Optimization is the amount of optimization provided due to checksum based storage which is in your case 25617%

    It appears you are uploading the same binary multiple times to different folders and hence the above situation.