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Remove the data-snapshot from the deployment archive (mda)

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Hi all,


I've reported this to Mendix Support but it is not considered an issue, and was redirected to the forum.


Currently each deployment package contains the data-snapshot.zip which I believe is an issue and I would like to see it removed in the build process (as its only used in first time free node deployment).


There are number of issues with this

- It bloats the .mda package

- It increases the build processing time by a lot

- It introduces the risk of sharing (personal/local files, used while testing locally) to the cloud environments

Now multiply this impact across all Mendix applications: it is wasting a lot of space and processing power for something that is not needed.



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To backup my claim that it incfreases build processing:

6 Tags, first 3 with a data snapshot, last 3 without. It went down from avg 7 minutes to avg. 5 minutes

main-0.17.0.060a91c8.mda
    453.32
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-05-28T08:38:37.104878679Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-05-28T08:45:59.919251055Z Package is uploaded
    00:07:22
main-0.17.4.95bd29cc.mda
    453.47
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-06-03T08:44:52.544131179Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-06-03T08:52:32.306392571Z Package is uploaded
    00:07:40
main-0.17.5.afe6bda1.mda
    453.48
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-06-08T09:54:04.728270987Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-06-08T10:01:16.232146626Z Package is uploaded
    00:07:12
main-0.17.7.76ae6828.mda
    65.25
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-06-15T06:54:11.635781953Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-06-15T06:58:43.942693682Z Package is uploaded
    00:04:32
main-0.17.8.77587f87.mda
    64.50
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-06-16T08:40:56.398439513Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-06-16T08:46:22.255278929Z Package is uploaded
    00:05:26
main-0.17.9.fd933f7a.mda
	64.51
    [teamserver-discovery]  2026-06-17T10:14:49.051483113Z Project: 9e864710-866a-4791-9cc5-b84804457075
    [upload]                2026-06-17T10:19:58.292841780Z Package is uploaded
    00:05:09
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