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How do I remove old data?

Each one of your backed up files could potentially have several revisions stored on BitLeap’s servers. These revisions represent different versions of the backed up files over time. BitLeap refers to the act of removing unwanted historic revisions of files as purging.

Simply deleting current files on your network does not remove them or their historic revisions from BitLeap’s backup storage. Those files are still available for restoration until they have been purged based on a schedule you setup.

When you decide to purge your data, you are removing it from both the local backups and BitLeap’s storage nodes. This is important to realize since after your data has been purged, it is essentially gone forever. Purging only applies to historic file revisions, so your current data will never be impacted by a purge schedule.

OK, I get it, purging is final. Now how do I do it!?

Purging can be setup through the BitLeap Control Panel > Settings > Backup Purge Schedules. Basically, you need to tell BitLeap what data to purge and when to purge it. There are 3 main steps to set up a purge schedule. Also remember that you can have many different purge schedules setup. Each schedule could be purging a different section of your data. For example, one schedule to purge your dump files, one to purge your general documents and another to purge your image and audio files.

  1. Name the New Purge Schedule

    Start by giving your new schedule a name that represents what you want to purge out. This name will make it easier to understand at a glance, down the road, what you are doing in this purge schedule.

  2. Choose What to Purge

    Next, you will see all the servers, shares and directories contained in the LeapServ you are making this schedule for. Include or exclude any combination of servers, shares or directories you want to purge.

  3. Choose When to Purge

    Finally, we need to setup the timeline to purge on. Deciding when to purge can be the most confusing part. The easiest way to start filling out the timeline is to pick a template. To make the purge schedule setup easiser, you actually define how long you want to keep historic file revisions. There are 5 different increments you can use to specify how long to keep revisions. Any file revisions outside of the specified increments will be purged.

    • Keep all revisions – keeps all the historic file revisions during the specified time period
    • Keep daily revisions – keeps the latest file revision of each day during the specified time period
    • Keep weekly revisions – keeps the latest file revision of each week (sort of) during the specified time period
    • Keep monthly revisions – keeps the latest file revision of each month during the specified time period
    • Keep yearly revisions – keeps the latest file revision of each year during the specified time period

    You can setup a time period to keep your file revisions for each of the above increments. In addition to specifying the time period in days, weeks, months or years, you can select forever or never. Selecting forever as your time period will keep the revisions for that increment indefinately. Choosing never as a time period eliminates purging for that increment.

Are you a visual learner? View the results of an Example Purge Schedule.