Limit number of snapshots artifacts stored in Artifactory

If your Artifactory installation grows of many Gb each day – althought you do not deploy so many new artifacts. I suggest you to look under the repositories settings.

All your local repositories are configured as default with Snapshot Version Behavior = Non-Unique. As stated in the manual, all deployed SNAPSHOTS with be keep with unique time-stamp and build number suffix in the background (and you’ll only see one version in the tree).

I recommend you to switch to Non-Unique. In that mode Artifactory should only keep the N latest Snapshot of an groupid/artifact/name file.  So you’ll be able to keep the repository size under control.

Note

• Deployer-respecting behavior – Artifactory will respect the user snapshot policy, i.e. act as a standard, non-smart, repository.
• Non-unique snapshots –  You can limit the number of saved artifacts in this mode
• Unique snapshots – with unique time-stamp and build number suffix. This keep potentially all your SNAPSHOTS even if they are not recently been accessed (Nexus has a cleanup policy by last access)