# Performing a Data Aging Operation

The data aging operation consists of two main activities:

- Aging: Identifies and marks jobs as aged once they have exceeded their defined retention period.

- Pruning: Physically removes eligible jobs from disk storage or recycles tapes when all jobs on a tape have been marked as aged.

By default, the data aging operation is scheduled to run daily at 12:00 PM. However, this schedule can be customized as needed, and multiple data aging operations can be configured to run at different times if required. Managed Service Provider (MSP) admin or user can also schedule a data aging operation.

## Procedure

1. From the Command Center navigation pane, go to Manage > Maintenance.

2. Click the Data Aging tile.

   The Run Data Aging page appears.

3. Data on all the storage policy copies in your environment is aged by default. To age data on selected entities in your environment, move the Age data on all copies toggle key to the left, and then select one of the following options and configure the entities.

   - Age data on selected plans/copies

   - Age data on selected storage

   - Age data on all snap copies

4. Data on all the servers and server groups in your environment is aged by default. To age data on selected servers or server groups in your environment, move the Age data on all servers/server groups toggle key to the left, and then select the servers or server groups to age the data.

5. To schedule the job, click Schedule, and enter the schedule information.

6. Click Submit to run the data aging job.

   After the data aging job is run, the data will be pruned from the storage.

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