.. _event-cleaner:


Manually Purge Old Data from Database
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To manually remove old data from the FindFace database, use the ``cleanup`` utility. You can separately remove the following data:

* matched events,
* unmatched events,
* full frames of matched events,
* full frames of unmatched events,
* audit-logs.

To invoke the ``cleanup`` help message, execute:

.. code::

   sudo findface-security cleanup --help

   
To entirely remove events older than a given number of days, use the ``--face-events-max-matched-age``/``--face-events-max-unmatched-age`` options. For example, to remove unmatched events older than 5 days, execute:

.. code::

   sudo findface-security cleanup --face-events-max-unmatched-age 5

To remove only matched events older than 5 days, execute:

.. code::

   sudo findface-security cleanup --face-events-max-matched-age 5

The following commands remove only full frames of matched/unmatched events:

.. code::

   sudo findface-security cleanup --face-events-max-fullframe-matched-age 5
   sudo findface-security cleanup --face-events-max-fullframe-unmatched-age 5

To remove only audit logs, execute:

.. code::

   sudo findface-security cleanup --audit-logs-max-age 5