Manually Running Retention Rules

Overview

Data retention may not be working properly and may need to be manually purged. This article provides step-by-step instruction on how to run retention rules manually.

Steps

To run retention manually:

1. Identify the rule to run and the timestamp:

   1. Open GFI\Archiver\Core\Data\marcsettings.xml

   2. Search for retention.

   3. For example in this particular case.

      • <Rule Guid="bb2c2b72-1470-4649-86e7-f4388f9764ca" Enabled="true">

      • <Description>Delete - Notification of Estimated Delivery - emails after 90 days</Description>

      • <Action Type="Delete" Db="" TagValue="" RetentionPeriod="90" RetentionVersions="0" />

2. In SQL, open a query for the respective store and run the command:

   • dbo.RemoveEmailMessages @archiveDate='<EmailsOlderThanThisDateToRemove>',@ruleGuid='<ruleId>'

   • Example:

     dbo.RemoveEmailMessages @archiveDate='2019-04-17 00:00:00',@ruleGuid='bb2c2b72-1470-4649-86e7-f4388f9764ca'

Example:

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