Data retention: report history and storage management
Anaphora stores captured data and generated reports for reference and audits. This section tells you how Anaphora stores and manages data, and how it deletes old data automatically.
Overview
The Data Retention section has two pages:
- Runs: the execution history of your jobs, including successful captures, failures, and delivery status
- Reports: generated report documents and archives
Housekeeping and automatic cleanup
Anaphora has automatic housekeeping that limits storage use over time. You set the retention of runs and reports per job, in the job's General tab, under Housekeeping > Run Expire Time.
- A new job keeps its runs for six months by default. Untick the retention to keep runs forever (Never expire).
- An hourly clean-up deletes the runs that are older than the job's retention.
- A job made from a built-in template also keeps its runs for six months.
- When a run is deleted, by the clean-up or by hand, Anaphora also deletes its report files from disk.
- When a job is deleted, Anaphora deletes its report files too.
- The hourly clean-up also removes report folders that no run owns. It removes only folders older than one day, and it removes nothing while the database holds no run.