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Uninstall Alta

If Alta is not needed anymore you can remove it completely from your server.

What Is Removed and What Is Kept

Section titled “What Is Removed and What Is Kept”

Removed by the steps below: the systemd service, the binary, the configuration files and license.txt in /etc/alta.

Kept on the server: the recorded archive in the Location directory of each Storage. To delete it, delete the storage in the web interface first. Alta then removes the whole Location directory with all its contents. Or remove the directory by hand.

Remove service

Section titled “Remove service”

If you use Systemd, first of all stop your service:

Terminal window
systemctl stop alta

Disable autorun:

Terminal window
systemctl disable alta

And remove service file:

Terminal window
rm /etc/systemd/system/alta.service

Cleanup

Section titled “Cleanup”

Remove binary file and configuration files:

Terminal window
rm -rf /usr/local/bin/alta /etc/alta

If you have additional services (e.g., alta2), remove them as described in Manage Alta Service. Archives in Storage locations are not removed automatically.