NetSUS and Storage Management

[johnnasset]

We run a NetSUS 3.0.2 VM. Periodically the system downloads updates to the point of completely filling up the hard drive and not allowing me to login to the web interface. I then go through the steps of finding updates to purge and then requesting more storage space for the vm. Rinse, repeat. We have a substantial number of updates dating back to 2005 (none are currently enabled). Is there a way to purge products from Reposado based on date? We still have lion clients so really I'd like to delete any update from snow leopard and earlier. Currently my catalog list looks like this in /var/lib/reposado/preferences.plist:

<key>AppleCatalogURLs</key> <array> <string>http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> <string>https://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-10.11-10.10-10.9-mountainlion-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog</string> </array>

Any tips on getting a handle on old updates/etc to manage my storage?

Regards,
John

[calumhunter]

throw 1Tb at it and don't worry?

How much space is it taking up? 250gb?

[mattware]

Did you clear out your deprecated updates?

[johnnasset]

Yep, all deprecated updates clear. I believe I read somewhere that if you remove a catalog url then all of the updates in that catalog become deprecated and can be deleted using repoutil. I would really like to only have updates applicable to 10.7 and higher but it there isn't a catalog to cover only 10.7 and higher.

[Chubs]

Can we +1 (or +1000) this?

Every time we try to enable SUS, it fills up the VM HDD after the first sync of updates, bringing down our NBI environment.

We want to take up as small of a footprint as possible (our WSUS DB is only 88GB).

I hate to say it, but maybe there can be a management portion similar to WSUS in that which OSs it supports via updates?

[itupshot]

Along the same lines, I'd like to limit it to only El Capitan and Yosemite. We have only 8 computers running Mt. Lion (out of 160 managed computers), and they will be upgraded soon.

Would "index-10.11-10.10.merged-1.sucatalog" work? I don't need to have all these updates for OSes we don't run anymore.