Scheduling data purges

When Surround SCM data is destroyed, it is marked for deletion from the database. By default, a background process run by the Surround SCM Server periodically purges destroyed data. If a large amount of data needs to be purged, the process may take a long time and affect other database maintenance tasks, such as RDBMS backups. You can schedule when to purge destroyed data to ensure the process does not interfere with other tasks.

1. Choose Tools > Administration > Server Options.

The Server Options dialog box opens.

2. Select Purge Scheduling from the Global Server Options category.

3. Select a purge scheduling option.

• Automatically purge destroyed data purges data automatically when the server maintenance background process runs.
• Schedule purge to run purges data on the specified day and time each week.
• Never purge destroyed data disables purges. We do not recommend selecting this option because destroyed data uses database space until purging is enabled. If data is not purged, you could run out of database space.

4. Click OK to save the changes.