DB history retention

[tom_l]

The default retention is 10 days.

Recorder

There’s also this:

How to reduce your database size and extend the life of your SD card

Preamble: @tom_l is the original author of this community guide. He proposed an analytical approach to decide for each entity_id whether to include or exclude it from the underlying database. @mbuscher suggested to go after the entities most often updated in the database, and exclude only those. Both approaches are now included in this community guide. Target audience: anyone who uses an installation on flash memory like a Raspberry Pi with an SD card or an SSD drive, or anyone who wishes to re…