Chapter 14. Database cleaning


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The Compute service includes an administrative tool, nova-manage, that you can use to perform deployment, upgrade, clean-up, and maintenance-related tasks, such as applying database schemas, performing online data migrations during an upgrade, and managing and cleaning up the database.

The following database management tasks are performed by default:

  • Archives deleted instance records by moving the deleted rows from the production tables to shadow tables.
  • Purges deleted rows from the shadow tables after archiving is complete.
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