How to change Proget's Temporary Upload Path for S3 uploads

kenneth.garza_2882

Heya,

So i am using the s3 backend for all of my feeds. Recently packages stopped uploading to the server to find that the disk for the server was full. (it was IIS logs, not related to proget).

It makes sense that when a package is uploaded to Proget its first stored on the local disk before synced to the s3 bucket. However, the concern is that this temp storage area is on the OS drive. I'd like to move this to a data drive.

I looked in the Administration -> Advanced settings to see if there was an obvious setting for this but does not appear so.

I am currently using Version 6.0.15 (Build 2)

Thanks

Kenneth Garza

atripp

Hi @kenneth-garza_2882 ,

ProGet uses temp files for a number of things, including buffering uploads like this.

This shouldn't cause any space problems, as ProGet will delete these files upon successful use, and Windows can automatically cleanup files that failed to upload. Relatively speaking it's a small amount of temporary space compared to everything else in there.

If you're worried about using a system drive for temporary files, you can change the App Pool User's Profile path, or just the temporary path:
https://www.howtogeek.com/285710/how-to-move-windows-temporary-folders-to-another-drive/

Cheers,
Alana

kenneth.garza_2882

@atripp Thank you for this information. To clarify, you're suggesting that the temp folder for buffering uploads is actually the proget's iis service account temp folder?

If so that makes things simple to move, as you suggested.

Thanks

Kenneth Garza

atripp

Hi @kenneth-garza_2882 ,

That should be the case, under the hood, ProGet is using this API:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/fileio/creating-and-using-a-temporary-file

According to the docs for GetTempPath, the first path found will be used:

The path specified by the TMP environment variable.
The path specified by the TEMP environment variable.
The path specified by the USERPROFILE environment variable.
The Windows directory.

So it seems there's many way to specify this.