History Cleanup

History Cleanup step allows you to clean the selected instance history (backup history and SQL Agent jobs).

To launch history cleanup immediately select Quick Maintenance Action | History Cleanup popup menu item in the Servers tab .

To perform scheduled history cleaning on regular basis you need to include this task into Policy:

1. At Step 2 of the Create Policy wizard click Create new step button and select History Cleanup step type.

2. Also, you can create a new Step Template for further use selecting History Cleanup step at the Templates tab.

Steps of the History Cleanup wizard:

Naming step

Selecting server

Selecting historical data

Performing operation