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This includes details such as the number of messages, files, active users, and moderators. If you
also want to list each of the individual moderators in each room add `-v` to the end of the command.

## List room ids
With sqlite3 installed run
```
sqlite3 /var/lib/session-open-group-server/sogs.db 'select id,token from rooms;'
```
## Clear out old room messages
After getting the room id you can clear out messages stored on your server since this is not done automatically. In the example below our room id is 1 and messages older than 14 days are being deleted.
```
sqlite3 /var/lib/session-open-group-server/sogs.db "DELETE FROM message_details WHERE room = 1 AND posted < strftime('%s', 'now', '-14 days');"
```
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A better query here would be this so that you don't have to worry about the ID values at all:

DELETE FROM message_details WHERE room = (SELECT id FROM rooms WHERE token = 'someroom') AND posted < strftime('%s', 'now', '-14 days');

However, in general, I'd prefer that we moved such functionality into the sogs command-line tool as I'm rather wary of having people directly interact with the sqlite database.

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I agree, was saying this in the Session SOGS group. I'll look into it.

## Backup sogs
It is recommended to do periodic backups of your sogs instance. You can backup the needed files to your current directory by running
```
#stop sogs server so files can be backed up (assumes you you systemd service for sogs)
systemctl stop sogs;
#backup files to tar.xz in current directory with current date.
tar -cJvf pysogs_backup_$(date --iso-8601).tar.xz /var/lib/session-open-group-server /etc/sogs/sogs.ini;
#starts sogs (assumes you you systemd service for sogs)
systemctl start sogs;
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## More!

For other commands, such as listing all global moderators, deleting rooms, and removing
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