XF 1.5 Reducing the size of a test environment

[Joe Link]

We have a fairly large forum with a 4GB database and 12GB's of attachments. I'm looking for a good way to prune a large portion of this data from our test install, particularly most of the attachments.

What's the best way to achieve this?

 

[Paul B]

For the database you can look at the largest tables and determine whether any of them can be pruned.
Possible candidates would be xf_edit_history, xf_ip, xf_bb_code_parse_cache (if enabled).

You can also truncate the xf_search_index, if you aren't using Enhanced Search.

For the server files, you can omit the attachments directories.

 

[Joe Link]

Thanks for the info.

To confirm, simply not copying the attachment directories will not cause any problems?

 

[Paul B]

No, it will just result in no attachments being available.