We are moving some of our blob stores to another file-system and therefore added a blob migration task. I started this task before the weekend and it finished sometime early Saturday. We have cleanups running every night (cleanup unused assets, delete temp files, compact store – in that order). Tod…

Yes, I am referring to that task. I don’t believe the files not being deleted is related to that, seeing how those that were marked a month ago, were marked before I created that task. But yeah, I’ll contact Sonatype support.

Blob stores not getting cleaned (correctly)

Sonatype Nexus Repository

mprescott (Michael Prescott) October 28, 2025, 8:24pm 2

@roland.asmann Are you referring to this task here? If so, this is a Pro feature and I recommend you get in touch with Sonatype support.

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Blob stores not getting cleaned (correctly)

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