As a part of normal maintenance, use the REMOVE command with additional switches to purge the database and the file structure of files. The purged files are based on the number of days configured using the RETENTION parameter

For further information on the commands used in this article see the product documentation: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/session-recording/current-release/manage-recording-files

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Instructions

This Batch Script Example uses the ICLDB command to remove any recording from the database older than 14 days and delete the associated .icl file. An entry will be added to the Application Event log, and a list of the deleted .icl files will be output to a log file in the working directory with the name format: YYYYMMDD.txt. 

CD "C:\Program Files\Citrix\SessionRecording\Server\Bin\"
ICLDB REMOVE /RETENTION:14 /LISTFILES /DELETEFILES /L /F /S >%date:~-4,4%%date:~-7,2%%date:~-10,2%.txt

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This article gives an example of how to remove old session recording files from file server and database using the ICLBD command.

As a part of normal maintenance, use the REMOVE command with additional switches to purge the database and the file structure of files. The purged files are based on the number of days that you want to retain the database for.

For further information on the commands used in this article see the product documentation.