# Do you routinely do 'docker system prune' or anything else to maintain your Discourse instances?

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-routinely-do-docker-system-prune-or-anything-else-to-maintain-your-discourse-instances/141708 "2020-02-15T20:46:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/do-you-routinely-do-docker-system-prune-or-anything-else-to-maintain-your-discourse-instances/141708/7 "2021-01-22T19:50:22Z")

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The prune runs at the host level, while admin upgrades are internal to the running container.

Also the `/.launcher cleanup` cleans up old images, but when using the internal admin upgrade you don’t even download new images.

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