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When Does Data Expire?

Dion Whitehead
Creator of Metapages

Our data expiration policy takes a long term view: some data never expires while our organization lives, some data lives a very long time, and some data expires relatively rapidly.

Data retention / expiration is often something thought about only when needed (which makes sense!). But if you decide ahead of time when and what data expires, your entire data lifecycle now has clear boundaries.

Data objectExpiration
Metapage definitionsActive account: never
Inactive account: no access after 10 years
Permanent page: never
Metapage definition backupsTime machine schedule
Metapage statesTime machine schedule

Time machine schedule

  • All within the last minute
  • Last hour: one per minute
  • Last 24 hours: one per hour
  • Last 7 days: one per day
  • Last 30 days: one per week
  • Last 12 months: one per month