swift-account-reaper(1)

✨ swift-account-reaper(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the OpenStack Swift corner of the manual, this one's swift-account-reaper and it's literally the cleanup crew 💅

💖 NAME 💖

swift-account-reaper — the OpenStack Swift account reaper, no cap 🧹

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

swift-account-reaper [CONFIG] [-h|--help] [-v|--verbose] [-o|--once]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this thing removes data from status=DELETED accounts. and what are those, you ask? they're accounts that the reseller has asked to be removed, via the services remove_storage_account XMLRPC call. that's it, that's the vibe ✨

here's the tea though: the account does not get deleted immediately by the services call. instead, the account is just marked for deletion, by setting the status column in the account_stat table of the account database. that's literally all that happens at first 🫶

then our girl swift-account-reaper comes through and scans for accounts like that, and removes the data in the background. iconic behaviour, honestly. and heads up — the background deletion process will occur on the primary account server for the account. that's where the magic happens 🔥

The options are as follows:

• -v, --verbose — log to console 📝 (yes, she'll narrate everything to you, main character energy)
• -o, --once — only run one pass of daemon 🏃♀️ (one and done, she's not sticking around)

🌈 DOCUMENTATION 🌈

if you want the more in depth documentation, about swift-object-auditor and also about OpenStack Swift as a whole, it lives at:

https://docs.openstack.org/swift/latest/

go read it, iykw ikyk 👑 it's giving study session.

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

• account-server.conf(5)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this one's running on Linux, dated 8/26/2011, and yeah it's from the swift-account-reaper(1) manual — old but still slaying. mwah 💋