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Totara application storage problem

 
Muhammad Jamil
Totara application storage problem
بواسطة Thursday, 19 June 2025, 5:39 AM - Muhammad Jamil
 

Hi there,

We are currently handling the hosting of our Totara application in-house. However, we are encountering a significant challenge related to storage issues, both in terms of disk space and our database server. One of the primary contributing factors to this problem is that our course creators are developing courses that include lengthy videos with high quality graphics.

Given this situation, I have a couple of questions and would greatly appreciate your expert opinions:

1. For those of you who are hosting the Totara application in-house, how do you manage and handle large video files within your courses? Are there any best practices or strategies that you could share with us?

2. I need to extract a report from the Totara system that details the amount of space occupied by each course. Could anyone provide guidance or instructions on how to generate such a report?

 Thank you in advance for your guidance.
Warm Regards,
Jamil

Irma Boks-Eek
Re: Totara application storage problem
بواسطة Friday, 20 June 2025, 6:06 AM - Irma Boks-Eek
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Hi Jamil,

I'm afraid I don't really have answers to your questions, but we do see similar problems for customers who are using Totara for many years now. So I hope to see some answers here that can help us as well.

If any tips could be shared how to clean up on the server side, that would also work for us.

I do know that customers that use a lot of video's often combine a Vimeo account with Totara, because that is made to store video's and easily linked and secure. But that doesn't help your full server now..

Kind regards,

Irma