Which files and directories can I delete?

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After custombuild runs, which files and directories can I delete? This is what I noticed. After my MySQL upgrade, I have the old MySQL tarball, and it looks like a tarball of the data in /usr/local. In the custom build directory, I have a source tarball of the old MySQL. In the directories in there, I have an httpd-2.2.15 directory, but I'm not even on it. I'm on 2.4, and I don't have a 2.4 directory. I don't understand this area of DA very well.

The reason I'm asking, is I need to clean house because when I tried to retrograde to Apache 2.2, I ran out of disk space, so I reverted to the snapshot, which put me back on 2.4. The problem with 2.4 is it is not ready, and is causing app issues for me.

Thanks!
 
In the options.conf I have:
clean=yes
clean_old_tarballs=yes
clean_old_webapps=yes

That doesn't do it. If there are good reasons for what I see, I'm OK with that. There are just some things that don't make sense, so I don't know if it's a script problem or what. If the MySQL issue is a safety thing, and that I'm supposed to delete it later, I'm OK with that. And I didn't ask for a backup BTW. The httpd thing makes no sense when I install Apache 2.4, and end up with 2.2.15 and 2.4 source, and it finishes running 2.4 with a 2.2.15 directory in custombuild, and no 2.4 directory. And with everything set to clean, this isn't what I naturally expect, so I decided I need to understand this area a little better so I know what I'm supposed to/can clean up manually, and what I'm not.

Thanks!
 
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You can delete the backups once you're sure that everything mysql related is working as it should be. Note I don't guarantee anything because I'm not looking into your server, but this should be okay.

Jeff
 
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