Revision Cleanup

The compaction of tar files can be triggered manually in the Operations Dashboard via a maintenance job called Revision Clean Up.

To start Revision Clean Up you need to:

• Go to the AEM Welcome Screen.
• In the main AEM window, go to Tools - Operations - Dashboard - Maintenance or directly browse to http://localhost:4502/libs/granite/operations/content/maintenance.html
• Click on Daily Maintenance Window.

• Hover over the Revision Clean Up window and press the Start button.
• The icon will turn orange to indicate that the Revision Clean Up job is running. You can stop it at any time by hovering the mouse over the icon and pressing the Stop button:
• Invoking Revision Garbage Collection via the JMX Console
• Open the JMX Console by going to http://localhost:4502/system/console/jmx
• Click the RevisionGarbageCollection MBean.
• In the next window, click startRevisionGC() and then Invoke to start the Revision Garbage Collection job.