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Storage and garbage collection

The dashboard reports physical chunk storage after deduplication, free disk space, and pre-dedup content totals per game.

The panel displays retention but does not change it. Edit the server configuration to change retention.

What GC keeps

Garbage collection retains:

  • The configured number of newest builds of each stream and platform.
  • Pinned builds.
  • Builds younger than the configured retention age.
  • Files inside the safety grace period.

Everything else may be removed, including chunks no retained build needs. A build that belongs to no stream is kept only while it is pinned or young.

Preview a sweep

Choose dry run. The result reports how many builds and chunks would be removed and how much space would be reclaimed. No data changes.

Run a sweep

After reviewing the dry run, choose run now. The result reports removed and retained data, and the action appears in recent activity.

GC is designed to run while the server is available. Backups are still separate: garbage collection is not a substitute for a tested metadata backup.