# Freeing up space Recovery Mode

**URL:** <https://community.sonatype.com/t/freeing-up-space-recovery-mode/16163>\
**Category:** Sonatype Nexus Repository\
**Created:** [March 16, 2026, 2:09pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/freeing-up-space-recovery-mode/16163 "2026-03-16T14:09:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![mpiggott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f0a364/32.png) [@mpiggott](https://community.sonatype.com/u/mpiggott)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.sonatype.com/t/freeing-up-space-recovery-mode/16163/2 "2026-03-16T15:02:49Z")

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Recovery mode is intended to be used in conjunction with the Data Repair tasks. If you have recovered the data you intended to, when you disable recovery mode then the tasks that prevents it from running will be re-enabled.

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