clear cache?
When I download my GRAV installation via FTP, it takes a very long time. The reason is the "cache" folder. This quickly inflates to over 100,000 files.
Why is this, and can I safely delete it from time to time?
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Solved by pamtbaau View solution
@Henning007, A few alternative strategies:
- You can safely run
$ bin/grav cacheon your remote site before downloading it. However... the first visitor hitting the site will get a performance penalty because the cache will be rebuild first. - Another option is to only download the /user folder because this folder contains all your site specific data, like pages, themes, plugins, configs, etc. All other folders are Grav itself and can be downloaded separately from https://getgrav.org ( ~18Mb)
- And yet another option is to run
zip -r <name.zip> . -x "cache/[^.]*"which will exclude the contents of the /cache folder. Since most of Grav is just code, the size of the zip will be approx 20% of the installed site.
Hello pamptbaau,
Thanks for the info, that's good. I always download the whole domain to be sure.
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