QC Storage Bridge Recovery Vault Cleanup Scheduled Task

This article documents the 60-minute cleanup task that evaluates expired protected content and records purged, missing, or failed cleanup outcomes.

What you need to know

  • Recovery protection is a safety boundary for destructive operations and is separate from Max/All Access Recovery Vault management. QCSB may create protected copies even when the current user cannot open the management UI.
  • Delete, replace/overwrite, and destructive move are blocked when the required protected copy cannot be created and verified.
  • The canonical task cadences are: Entitlement Revalidation 60 minutes, Transfer Continuation 5 minutes, Recovery Vault Cleanup 60 minutes, and Notification Delivery 5 minutes.

What the 60-minute task does

  • Runs every 60 minutes at the canonical schedule.
  • Finds protected Recovery items whose retention/retain-until policy has expired.
  • Purges the private protected object when cleanup is allowed/succeeds while preserving appropriate historical/audit record state.
  • Handles missing/failed cleanup as diagnosable state rather than falsely claiming a clean purge.
  • Does not weaken the rule that destructive operations must create/verify protection before provider removal at operation time.

Verify the result

  • The Recovery item/state matches the action you performed.
  • A restored/downloaded item matches the expected content and destination.
  • Purge/cleanup does not erase the historical audit trail.

Important limits and mistakes to avoid

  • Do not bypass failed recovery protection to force a destructive action. The block is intentional safety behavior.

Troubleshooting

  • If a destructive action is blocked because recovery protection failed, repair recovery storage/capacity first; do not bypass the protection boundary.
  • On a quiet site, use server cron for Joomla scheduler:run --all rather than assuming Lazy Scheduler will run on time.

Community Discussion

For practical QCSB workflows and discussion with other Joomla site owners, visit the QC Storage Bridge Community. For private support, bug reports, account-specific entitlement issues, or feature requests, use the QuantaCade support system.