A challenge with archiving simulation data is the inevitable growth of disk space usage, regardless if such data is stored in a database or on the file system. Oftentimes you will not be able to persist some, or all, of the Built, Computed, and Plotted Data generated by your models for longer periods of time due to the sheer amount of storage capacity that would be required.

In this section, you will find various ways in which Model Manager can help you keep the total size of your simulation data under control via maintenance operations. Performing these maintenance operations for a server database accessed via a Model Manager server typically requires that you have authenticated using a root administrator account or have been granted the relevant database permissions — see Granting Database Permissions.