# How to purge data older than 3months?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-purge-data-older-than-3months/352137
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 13, 2025, 7:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-purge-data-older-than-3months/352137 "2025-02-13T19:14:28Z")
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### Author: ![Canapin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/canapin/32/119591_2.png) [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2025, 10:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-purge-data-older-than-3months/352137/6 "2025-03-02T10:05:24Z")

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> [@pfaffman](#):
>
> Maybe you just want to generate some bogus data? I think there is a rake task for that

Yes, there’s a task:

> [@Set up a staging server](https://meta.discourse.org/t/set-up-a-staging-server/225951/1):
>
> ```plaintext
> ./launcher enter app
> ALLOW_DEV_POPULATE=1 bundle install
> ALLOW_DEV_POPULATE=1 rake dev:populate
> 
> ```

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