ARTIFACTORY: How to remove a cold storage binding when the cold storage instance is no longer available

ARTIFACTORY: How to remove a cold storage binding when the cold storage instance is no longer available

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Erez Vadmani
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000005661
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Salesforce
FirstPublishedDate
2023-03-31T13:01:01Z
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2023-03-31
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2

When using the JFrog Cold Artifact Storage functionality, you might want to delete a binding between a live JPD instance and its respective cold JPD instance.

However, in accordance with our documentation, you cannot delete a binding between a live instance and a cold instance if the cold instance is not available:

“Important Note on Revoking Bindings
You cannot remove the binding between the Live instance and the Cold instance in cases where the Cold instance is not available anymore.“

You would also get the following error in the UI when trying to delete such a binding:
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The fact that you cannot delete this binding and it actually restricts you from creating a new binding (since each live instance should only be paired with a single cold instance).