On a failed deployment, is there a local copy of the install file

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Joshua A. Pirog

• February 22, 2013 17:30

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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  Shane Corellian

  • February 22, 2013 18:56

  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.

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  SelfMan

  • February 22, 2013 22:07

  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.

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  Joshua A. Pirog

  • February 22, 2013 22:09

  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.

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  Shane Corellian

  • February 22, 2013 22:10

  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.

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