How do I Schedule deletion of data after 6 months.

[RSAAdmin]

Hi,

We have a 6 months policy of keeping data. Can anyone help me with howto set up the scheduling of the deletion?

I want to delete all data that is older than 6 months. I believe the lsmaint.exe command is involved. Is that correct?

joakim

[RSAAdmin]

Yes, use the following lsmaint command & parameters to purge data older than 6 months (180 days):

lsmaint -delete -time start -180D -devices *

You can run lsmaint -? to see every available option.

[RSAAdmin]

OK. So under "Executable name:" i put lsmaint.exe here and under parameter strings I put the rest " or do I use the hole syntax under exe..name?

joakim

[RSAAdmin]

Break it into two pieces: 

In executable name field, put:

e:\nic\<your version number>\<your appliancename>\bin\lsmaint.exe

In parameters field, put:

-delete -time start -180D -devices *

[RSAAdmin]

Thank you for helping me.

Best 

joakim

[RSAAdmin]

We have a 12 month time limit on record retention.  And since I'm gutless, I purge anything older than 14 months.  I have a plain old BAT named PurgeData.BAT that runs with Windows Task Manager the first day of every month.  It first outputs to a text file cuz, again, I'm gutless...  It's run on the D-SERV of out LS50 system...

@Echo off
CLS
C:
CD\
lsmaint -show -time start -14M > C:\Temp\monthlypurge.txt
lsmaint -delete -time start -14M

Message Edited by MikeWade on11-10-200802:33 PM

[RSAAdmin]

I like the idea here to send the output to a text file for verification purposes and to schedule it.  Kudos to you sir.

[RSAAdmin]

This is how to schedule a task within to run LSMAINT in the enVision GUI:

(1)  Login to enVision with administrative privledges

(2)  From Overview -> System Configuration - > Services -> Scheduler Service -> Schedule Task

(3)  Create a Task name

(4)  Choose the Site/Node you want the Scheduled Task to be executed.  Choose the D-SRV.

(5)  Click the Browse Radio button next to Executable name and browse to E:\nic\enVision version\enVision sitename\bin and select lsmaint.exe

(6)  Under the Parameter strings you would enter the arguments based on the data you wanted to delete/copy.  In this case: 

-delete -time -start -182D

(7)  Click the Set Recurrence button and choose how often the lsmaint command will run.

(8)  It may take a minute to show up in the Schedule Tasks pane.  Just click the Refresh button until it shows.

Message Edited by CaptainJackSparrow on01-20-200910:41 AM

[RSAAdmin]

Matt,

I am working to get rid of some data and I ran lsmaint.exe -delete -time start -17M -devices *  but I noticed that the data for several of my devices did not get removed.  The permissions of the files and folders look correct.  I then ran lsmaint.exe -show -time start -17M -devices * and no data came back.  Can I just delete those folders or is there a better way to remove that data.

Thanks for your help.

Michael

[RSAAdmin]

I have the same problem - RSA claim that lsmaint is not a guaranteed tool for data removal. they did mention a sys internals tool that can be run to show if a file is locked or being used by another process when you try to delete it with lsmaint