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

Question

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?

Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Answer

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_gtcuat · Answer

@Camilo Galleguillos Thanks for notifying me! :D

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

Camilo Galleguillos · Answer

@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/