On a failed deployment, is there a local copy of the install file
Joshua A. Pirog
I was curious about this so let me explain a little bit.
Whenever the file deploys to a computer either push or pull and then fails (for whatever reason), is there a local copy of the stored on the computer?
If not, would it be possible to do that? I didn't want to post this in the suggestions unless I knew if it is actually possible.
My thought behind this is, it saves bandwidth, especially large files, if a file transfers but fails to install, clearly you're going to want it to deploy again. But eliminating the need to transfer the file again will save a lot of time.
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At this time this feature isn't available. We've discussed creating a cache for deployments but we haven't made any decisions yet. When a deployment finishes (with either success or failure) all of the files used in the deployment are deleted from the target.
There are ways to create a own cache. You can utilize a batch script which would copy the content of the deployment folder to a desired location and also check if that location exists. Its all about the batch script.
Yeah, I understand you could do that, but it wouldn't be beneficial to me to do so. If it were baked into the software, it'd be much more useful.
This is definitely true however since this this wouldn't be a native feature care would need to be taken to purge the custom cache when needed. This could, obviously, be performed with a script and it could delete old entries based on date/time stamp.