I was going to update from 10.4 to 10.5.3 when I noticed that the HDD on which Tableau was installed was nearly full - 115GB out of 127GB had been consumed. I ran tabadmin cleaning and it's currently at 110GB.
I looked to check what was using up the space and saw that "T:Program FilesTableauTableau Serverdatatabsvcdataengineextract" was taking over 100GB. All datasource extracts total roughly 900MB, according to the "Stats for Space Usage" across all sites. Adding certain workbooks that have been saved as.TWBX files since the total size of all sites is less than 1GB.
Please explain the reason for this disparity.
What is taking up this space?
What's the best way for me to reclaim this space?
I was going to update from 10.4 to 10.5.3 when I noticed that the HDD on which Tableau was installed was nearly full - 115GB out of 127GB had been consumed. I ran tabadmin cleaning and it's currently at 110GB.
I looked to check what was using up the space and saw that "T:Program FilesTableauTableau Serverdatatabsvcdataengineextract" was taking over 100GB. All datasource extracts total roughly 900MB, according to the "Stats for Space Usage" across all sites. Adding certain workbooks that have been saved as.TWBX files since the total size of all sites is less than 1GB.
Please explain the reason for this disparity.
What is taking up this space?
What's the best way for me to reclaim this space?
I'm deferring my upgrading till I have enough room to ensure that it doesn't fail. I'm also worried about the server crashing if it runs out of space - I'm pleased I noticed this problem early!!
I used the following commands after the first tabadmin cleaning, but they didn't help:
- tabadmin cleanup
- tabadmin stop
- tabadmin clearcache
- tabadmin cleanup
- tabadmin start