Deleting artifacts older than 2 years from local nexus repository

Question

We're running nexus on some old hardware which is limited in disk space and would like to remove artifacts older than a certain threshold.

Is there any way to do this other than a combination of find and curl?

Answer 1

There is a scheduled task that can automatically remove old snapshot releases:

• http://www.sonatype.com/people/2009/09/nexus-scheduled-tasks/
• http://www.sonatype.com/books/nexus-book/reference/confignx-sect-managing-tasks.html

Unfortunately, this does not work for hosted release repositories.