Job data removal

Applies to Typefi Server v8.18 or later.

This guide explains how system administrators can use Job Data Removal to manually remove historical job data from Typefi Server.

Job Data Removal allows you to manually control the storage consumption of historical job data and improve server performance. It does this by removing all job folders and their contents and pruning the job database of corresponding entries, which ensures the permanent removal of any database entries left behind after a scheduled workflow Cleanup.

For example, if you choose to delete data older than three months, all job-related data—created up to three months ago—will be permanently removed and cannot be recovered.

Job Data removal is a one-time action; Typefi Server will not continually delete data older than your specified timeframe. To remove more data in the future, you’ll need to manually run Job Data Removal again. Support for scheduling job data retention is planned for a future release.

Affected data

Job Data Removal permanently removes the following job-related data types:

• Job folders and their contents: This includes the dedicated job folders created for each job and all files and subfolders within them; for example, temporary data, intermediate files, output files, and job-specific log files.
• Job log database entries. This includes pruning entries from the job log database that correspond to the deleted job folders. These entries include metadata such as job ID, job name, start and end times, and job status.

How to manually remove job data

Follow these steps to manually remove historical job data in Typefi Server:

1. Sign in to Typefi Server (v8.18 or later) as a system administrator.
2. Navigate to Filestore (Admin → Filestore).
3. Locate Job Data Removal.
4. Select the Delete data older than drop-down menu.
5. Choose your desired timeframe. Select an option is displayed by default.

   The available timeframes are:

• • 30 days
  • 90 days
  • 6 months
  • 12 months
  • Custom

6. (Optional) If you select Custom, enter the number of months in the Delete data older than field. Note: Any data older than this specified timeframe will be deleted.
7. Click Delete.
8. A confirmation dialog will appear.
   
   “You’ve selected to delete data older than [value] months. This action is irreversible.”

• • Click Continue to confirm your choice.
  • Click Go back to make a change.

9. After confirming, a second dialog will appear.
   
   "Are you sure you want to permanently delete data older than [value] months?"

• • Click Yes to permanently delete data.
  • Click Cancel to make a change.