Koha How-To

Koha Question of the Week: How Long do Records Remain in the Reservoir?

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Question: How Long do Records Remain in the Reservoir?

Records will remain in the reservoir, where staged records can first be viewed and searched via cataloging search, until one of two things happens:

A librarian 'cleans' that batch of records, removing them from the reservoir. Once this has happened, the 'clean' button becomes a 'delete' button.
The cleanup_database cron job purges records from the reservoir older than X days old.

For ByWater partners, unless specified otherwise, that default cleanup period is 180 days.