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Adding scheduled playback data removals

You can schedule automatic removal of unneeded playback data from the QA Wizard Pro Server at a set time or on a regular basis. For example, you can schedule to remove all canceled playback sessions at the end of each day or remove all sessions run on a computer used only for script debugging once a week.

Removed playback data is permanently deleted from the database and cannot be restored or viewed in the dashboard or status tool.

Note: If the server database is hosted in SQL Server, the database configuration may cause important playback data to be unintentionally removed. Review Incorrect Playback Sessions May Be Removed from QA Wizard Pro SQL Server Databases before removing data.

1. Start the QA Wizard Pro Server Admin Utility.

2. Click Data Removal Schedule.

The Data Removal Schedule dialog box opens.

3. Click Add.

The Add Scheduled Data Removal dialog box opens.

Note: You may be prompted to enter the data removal password first.

4. Select any options to specify the Playback Sessions to Remove.

Option	Removes:
Date	Sessions run during the selected date range. More than includes sessions run more than the specified number of hours, days, weeks, months, or years ago relative to the current date/time. From includes sessions run on or after the selected date and through includes sessions run on or before the selected date. In the last includes sessions run during the specified number of hours, days, weeks, months, or years before the current date/time.
Run state	Sessions in the selected state, which is the status of a session during or after playback. You can include active sessions that are running, successful sessions, failed sessions, inactive sessions that did not send information to the server in over 30 minutes, or sessions canceled by the user who started them.
Test computers	Sessions run on the selected computers. Click Select All to select all test computers or click Select None to clear all selected computers.
Session name	Sessions by name. You can include sessions with names that equal, start with, end with, contain, do not equal, or do not contain specific text. Select Ignore case to ignore the case of the entered text.

5. Click OK.

The Schedule Data Removal dialog box opens.

6. Select a Frequency to specify how often to remove the selected sessions.

You can schedule removals to occur once, daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly.

7. Select additional schedule Options. The available options depend on the selected frequency.

Time specifies the time of day to remove data. If you are scheduling a one-time removal, the time must be at least 5 minutes later than the current time.
Date specifies the date for one-time and yearly removals.
Day specifies the day of the week for weekly removals or day of the month for monthly removals.

8. Click OK.

The removal is scheduled. The date and time for the next removal is displayed in the Data Removal Schedule dialog box.