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Expiring Object Support
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The ``swift-object-expirer`` offers scheduled deletion of objects. The Swift
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client would use the ``X-Delete-At`` or ``X-Delete-After`` headers during an
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object ``PUT`` or ``POST`` and the cluster would automatically quit serving
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that object at the specified time and would shortly thereafter remove the
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object from the system.
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The ``X-Delete-At`` header takes a Unix Epoch timestamp, in integer form; for
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example: ``1317070737`` represents ``Mon Sep 26 20:58:57 2011 UTC``.
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The ``X-Delete-After`` header takes an integer number of seconds. The proxy
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server that receives the request will convert this header into an
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``X-Delete-At`` header using its current time plus the value given.
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As expiring objects are added to the system, the object servers will record the
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expirations in a hidden ``.expiring_objects`` account for the
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``swift-object-expirer`` to handle later.
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Usually, just one instance of the ``swift-object-expirer`` daemon needs to run
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for a cluster. This isn't exactly automatic failover high availability, but if
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this daemon doesn't run for a few hours it should not be any real issue. The
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expired-but-not-yet-deleted objects will still ``404 Not Found`` if someone
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tries to ``GET`` or ``HEAD`` them and they'll just be deleted a bit later when
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the daemon is restarted.
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By default, the ``swift-object-expirer`` daemon will run with a concurrency of
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1. Increase this value to get more concurrency. A concurrency of 1 may not be
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enough to delete expiring objects in a timely fashion for a particular Swift
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cluster.
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It is possible to run multiple daemons to do different parts of the work if a
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single process with a concurrency of more than 1 is not enough (see the sample
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config file for details).
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To run the ``swift-object-expirer`` as multiple processes, set ``processes`` to
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the number of processes (either in the config file or on the command line).
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Then run one process for each part. Use ``process`` to specify the part of the
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work to be done by a process using the command line or the config. So, for
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example, if you'd like to run three processes, set ``processes`` to 3 and run
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three processes with ``process`` set to 0, 1, and 2 for the three processes.
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If multiple processes are used, it's necessary to run one for each part of the
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work or that part of the work will not be done.
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The daemon uses the ``/etc/swift/object-expirer.conf`` by default, and here is
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a quick sample conf file::
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[DEFAULT]
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# swift_dir = /etc/swift
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# user = swift
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# You can specify default log routing here if you want:
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# log_name = swift
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# log_facility = LOG_LOCAL0
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# log_level = INFO
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[object-expirer]
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interval = 300
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[pipeline:main]
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pipeline = catch_errors cache proxy-server
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[app:proxy-server]
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use = egg:swift#proxy
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# See proxy-server.conf-sample for options
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[filter:cache]
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use = egg:swift#memcache
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# See proxy-server.conf-sample for options
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[filter:catch_errors]
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use = egg:swift#catch_errors
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# See proxy-server.conf-sample for options
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The daemon needs to run on a machine with access to all the backend servers in
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the cluster, but does not need proxy server or public access. The daemon will
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use its own internal proxy code instance to access the backend servers.
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