Hi
I have set up Amazon S3 remote storage and the files are appearing to transfer correctly. However, I noticed my 'media' folder getting bigger and bigger as users uploaded their pictures.
Upon investigation, I found that the remote storage feature does indeed copy the file to S3, but the local file is not removed. So for example:
1. User #83 Uploaded a picture file of 1MB in size - appears in my server folder /media/com_easysocial/photos/83/155 with an index.html file
2. Some time later, the same folder is created in Amazon S3. In the Amazon folder, the original picture is only 162KB in size. Also in this folder are additional versions of the picture, viz. _thumbnail, _square, _large and _featured.
3. The S3 folder with all the versions totals a little over 250K in size - while the original image at 1MB still sits on my server folder.
In addition, I have discovered that some photographs simply do not get moved to S3 for no clear reason. For example, folder /95 has still not been copied to S3 two days later, while /96, /97 and /98 have been moved.
So what is happening here? What is the point of this remote storage? Why are the original media files the user uploads still sitting there taking up much more space than the remote version? Why are these files not removed from local storage?
I have set up Amazon S3 remote storage and the files are appearing to transfer correctly. However, I noticed my 'media' folder getting bigger and bigger as users uploaded their pictures.
Upon investigation, I found that the remote storage feature does indeed copy the file to S3, but the local file is not removed. So for example:
1. User #83 Uploaded a picture file of 1MB in size - appears in my server folder /media/com_easysocial/photos/83/155 with an index.html file
2. Some time later, the same folder is created in Amazon S3. In the Amazon folder, the original picture is only 162KB in size. Also in this folder are additional versions of the picture, viz. _thumbnail, _square, _large and _featured.
3. The S3 folder with all the versions totals a little over 250K in size - while the original image at 1MB still sits on my server folder.
In addition, I have discovered that some photographs simply do not get moved to S3 for no clear reason. For example, folder /95 has still not been copied to S3 two days later, while /96, /97 and /98 have been moved.
So what is happening here? What is the point of this remote storage? Why are the original media files the user uploads still sitting there taking up much more space than the remote version? Why are these files not removed from local storage?