Best practices to truncate a collection about typesense HOT 3 CLOSED

After deleting the collection via the API, the on-disk contents are compacted every 7 days by default in v26 of Typesense.

You can either manually trigger DB compaction using this endpoint and you want to then trigger a snapshot (to clear the old DB from previous snapshots).

Or you can also decrease the default DB compaction interval using the db-compaction-interval flag (seconds).

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Thanks for your quick reply Jason.

Just tested this: First calling CompactDisk( ), then CreateSnapshot(path)

Before: Disk usage = 5,7 GB
After: Disk usage = 6,2 GB
(Based on metrics.SystemDiskUsedBytes)

I expected that the disk usage would be reduced.

Not sure what I'm missing. Any explanation / elaboration on this is appreciated.

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It could be the old snapshots. Could you delete the snapshot directory generated by the create snapshot endpoint, once the snapshot API returns success?

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