Clean up the installation

During the update procedure, backups of the working directories of all runnables are created. This is to be able to roll back to the original version if the update fails.

Depending on the number of files stored in the working directories of the runnables, backups consume free disk space. Creating these backups can take a long time. Particularly in environments with limited disk I/O, such as virtual machines or physical machines using SAN or NAS as their IO subsystem, the time to create these backups can significantly influence the total time for performing the update. Nonetheless, you are highly recommended to leave the automatic backup of runnable working directories enabled.

However, as a preparation step, you can remove unnecessary files from the working directories. Former ARIS versions used to write many log files that were not removed automatically.

To provide more free disk space, you can first archive and then delete all log files from the current ARIS installation. Make sure to store the archive file containing the log files on a different drive or partition from the one where ARIS is installed.

To archive and delete all log files, use the collect log files and the delete log files ACC commands. You can also use the batch files provided (see <ARIS installation directory>\support: collectLogFiles and cleanLogFiles). On Linux systems you can find the related sh files in the home directory of the ARIS user that was created by the ARIS Cloud Controller Linux packages.