Reports Archiving

Reports archiving will help you keep the statistics history if you are going to clean the database for better system performance.  

On the page of Archiving settings (“Administration / Archiving Settings”) you can specify what reports and for what time period are to be archived.

For example, if you specify that you want to archive a "Year" report, at the beginning of every year  Tracker will archive the report for the past year. A “Month” time period means that Tracker will archive the report at the beginning of every month — in February for January, in March for February, etc.

On the first launch Tracker will start archiving all the old time periods starting from the first day when it started to gather the statistics.

Please take into account that the process of database cleaning will not affect the information that is due to be archived.

For example, if you have specified that you want to archive a "Year" report, the process of data removal will never affect the current year. Even if you will specifically indicate the dates for which the statistics should be removed. (This logic works only if Archiving is enabled).

The archiving process takes place in a background mode; therefore it requires constant functioning of the cron script.  

You don’t have to enable/disable the Archiving function many times. It is enough to set it up once, and Tracker will automatically monitor reports and archive them as and when necessary.