[Mediawiki-l] Deleting archived files

[Platonides]

Frank Fulchiero wrote:
> We allow uploads of up to 70 mb in our wiki, to support QuickTime  
> movies.
> I have been cleaning up videos that are not used by deleting the page  
> created when the asset is uploaded, using the Delete button at the  
> top, when logged in as WikiSysop.
> I notice the images/archive folder is over 1 GB in size.

These are the files which were "overwritten" by a new upload, ie. the 
file history. Deleted files are not saved (unless you specifically 
configured it to do so, and i doubt it was available for 1.5).

> Can I safely delete everything inside it, just leaving the empty archive folder?
I depends what you want...

> We have a large hard drive, but create a new image every week for  
> backup, and it would save time.
Do incremental backups. Once a file goes into the archive, it won't 
change (well, if disappears if you delete the image page).