wsuscontent folder very large 60GB+
- Hi,
We have a problem with WSUS3.0 sp1. It's over 60GB in size desipte it just being installed and only getting english updates. In the HEX (2 digital) subfolders there are many EXE and CAB files (15,000+) some very large with very old dates.
Does anyone else have that problem? What the solution to cleaning them up? tnx
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- Hi,
Please try the following steps to delete old and unnecessary updates:
1. Open WSUS console, decline the old and unnecessary updates.
2. Click option, run "server cleanup wizard" to delete this updates.
3. Download WSUS server diagnostic tool from this website:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/bb466192.aspx
After installing, please run the following command to delete unnecessary update files:
wsusdebugtool /tool:purgeunneededfiles
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Regards,
Eric Zhang
- Marked As Answer byEric Zhang - MSFTMSFT, ModeratorWednesday, July 09, 2008 10:09 AM
- Unmarked As Answer byLawrence GarvinMVP, ModeratorTuesday, November 10, 2009 4:20 PM
- Also, just make sure you are only downloading updates for necessary products. I personally only download OS patches, not software (MS office)
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Regards,
Eric Zhang
Dear Eric,
I tried this ,
When I apply Wsusdebugtool.exe /Tool:Purgeunneeded
Its Delete arround 2 GB space.
But After One Hour ,its automatically redownload that deleted update.
Plz help me to shortout this problem.
plz Suggest me if i did mistake some ware
From
Deepak ParmarDear Eric,
I tried this ,
When I apply Wsusdebugtool.exe /Tool:Purgeunneeded
Its Delete arround 2 GB space.
But After One Hour ,its automatically redownload that deleted update.
Plz help me to shortout this problem.
plz Suggest me if i did mistake some ware
From
Deepak Parmar
Same problem with our server. Any suggestion....Dear Eric,
I tried this ,
When I apply Wsusdebugtool.exe /Tool:Purgeunneeded
Its Delete arround 2 GB space.
But After One Hour ,its automatically redownload that deleted update.
Plz help me to shortout this problem.
plz Suggest me if i did mistake some ware
From
Deepak Parmar
First. the WSUSDebugTool is not the correct tool to use for this requirement. Use the Server Cleanup Wizard.
Second, regardless of which tool you use, the only files that will be deleted are those associated with DECLINED updates.
Third, the presence of this much content suggests that either you've enabled Express Installation Files, and a significant number of Products with Service Packs, or possibly that you're synchronizing Forefront Client Updates (which produce about 2GB/month of content), autoapproving the FCS updates, and not regularly (weekly!) running the SCW to decline those expired updates, and thus free up the content for deletion.
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
My Blog: http://onsitechsolutions.spaces.live.com- Lawerence,
Agree with your comment that "regardless of which tool you use, the only files that will be deleted are those associated with DECLINED updates". But the problem i am facing is that even after I have ran SCW tool to cleanup all the declined udates. I still see close to 120 of them on my parent server. After running SCW, I ran WSUSDebugTool, which cleaned up about 3-4 GB, but little while later that space was reclaimed by the updates.
Now as far enabling of updates is concerned, we have not enabled forefront clients, most of the products which we download include windows OS and exchange and sql product.
So question remains how to get rid of those 120 declined updates....
VIRK Lawerence,
Being declined is not the only criteria for removing a file, but it is the first.
Agree with your comment that "regardless of which tool you use, the only files that will be deleted are those associated with DECLINED updates". But the problem i am facing is that even after I have ran SCW tool to cleanup all the declined udates. I still see close to 120 of them on my parent server.
Is this a standalone server, or does it have downstream servers?
Do you have any pending download jobs *now* on this server. (Review the WSUS Admin UI main page.)
So question remains how to get rid of those 120 declined updates.
Can you give an example of one of these updates?
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
My Blog: http://onsitechsolutions.spaces.live.com- It is a Parent server with two downstream servers.
No pending download jobs on the server.
Examples of declined updates are:
Update for windows mail junk e-mail fiter (june 2009) KB905866
Update for windows mail junk e-mail fiter (july 2009) KB905866
Update for windows mail junk e-mail fiter (August 2009) KB905866
Update for windows mail junk e-mail fiter (September 2009) KB905866
The superseding update was approved for install. i.e. october 2009
VIRK It is a Parent server with two downstream servers.
Excellent! As I suspected. Part of the criteria for the removal of update files is not only that the update is declined on the upstream server, but also that the update is not needed by a downstream server, which translates to "not needed by any client of a downstream server". Ergo, as long as any one client of a downstream server is reporting that update as Needed (which may be the case as long as the updates are not declined on an autonomous downstream server), the files cannot be deleted from the upstream server.
Lawrence Garvin, M.S., MCITP:EA, MCDBA
Principal/CTO, Onsite Technology Solutions, Houston, Texas
Microsoft MVP - Software Distribution (2005-2009)
My MVP Profile: http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Lawrence.Garvin
My Blog: http://onsitechsolutions.spaces.live.com
