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To check the status of the cleaner, log into the appliance's command line interface (CLI) via ssh using putty or similar ssh client as the administrator user, and run the command:
stats --cleaner
The output will be similar to the following:
Last Run:
Last Files Processed : 19
Last Bytes Processed : 113880072192
Last Bytes Reclaimed : 9050433418
Last Start Time : 03/06/17 00:30:46
Last End Time : 03/06/17 00:35:02
Time To Completion(s) : 256.00
Current Run:
Start Time : 03/13/17 00:30:44
Files Processed : 32
Bytes Processed : 39549140992
Bytes Reclaimed : 12379337131
Phase 1 Start Time : 03/13/17 00:30:59
Phase 1 Records Processed : 0
Phase 1 End Time : 03/13/17 00:30:59
Phase 2 Start Time : 03/13/17 00:30:59
Phase 2 Records Processed : 1256985
Phase 2 End Time : 03/13/17 00:30:59
Phase 3 Start Time : 03/13/17 00:30:59
Phase 3 Records Processed : 1258
Phase 3 End Time : 03/13/17 00:31:01
Phase 4 Start Time : 03/13/17 00:31:03
Phase 4 Records Processed : 1358
Phase 4 End Time : 03/13/17 00:31:03
Phase 5 Start Time : 03/13/17 00:31:03
Phase 5 Records Processed : 0
Phase 5 End Time : 03/13/17 00:31:08
Last Completed Run:
Last Completed Start Time : 03/13/17 00:30:44
Last Completed End Time : 03/13/17 00:31:08
Last Completion time(s) : 24.00
Cleaner Pending Work:
Estimated Logical Bytes Left : 1962803200
In the above output we can see that the cleaner finished all 5 phases, but there is still work to be done on the next run, as indicated by the "Estimated Logical Bytes Left" being greater than 0. The phases where the cleaner actually reclaims space occurs in Phases 3-4.