Is there a time limit for how long something lives in the archive before automatic deletion?

[hdenenberg]

Hi! I am building an enterprise strategy for my company's usage of Confluence and was recently asked how long archived spaces and pages can live in the archive. 

I am not sure if the lifetime of something in the archive expires / if things are ever automatically moved to the trash after X number of years in the archive.

Does anyone know the answer? 

[Camilo Galleguillos]

Hi!

The archived spaces do not have an expiry date, nor are they deleted after any amount of time. Only spaces moved to Trash will be deleted after 60 days.

Best,

Camilo Galleguillos Sr. Technical Consultant ServiceRocket camilo.galleguillos@servicerocket.com Santiago, Chile

[Kristian Klima]

@Camilo Galleguillos 

Trashed spaces are NOT deleted automatically, see the screenshot from Confluence Cloud.

[Camilo Galleguillos]

@Kristian Klima thanks for noting it! The automatic deletion of spaces in trash is scheduled to start taking place on January 2025.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/delete-a-space/

[Kristian Klima]

@Camilo Galleguillos Thanks for notifying me! :D 

This makes perfect sense from the Atlassian's standpoint - storage is not cheap :) 

[Aron Gombas _Midori_]

If you want automatic purging (permanent removal) for archived content, you can do that using a "purge" type automation implemented by the Better Content Analytics and Archiving app.

👉 Short video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQpiB_PMB7k

("Auto-purge" is a relatively new addition, the video talks about "auto-archive" and "auto-delete" only)

You can periodically search among the archived content using a custom CQL search, most typically something like "archived more than a year ago" and then purge the pages and blog posts found:

Note that it applies to individual contents (pages, blog posts), not to a whole space.

(Discl. this paid and supported app is developed by our team. Free for 10 users!)

[Kristian Klima]

@hdenenberg 

There's no automatic deletion of anything. You're in control of your content.

I would advise, though, to purge a space trash once in especially if you're using that space in some sort of space sync scenario as it will expand dramatically.

https://support.atlassian.com/confluence-cloud/docs/archive-pages/