Hi,

I am trying to come up with a SharePoint workflow backup strategy and I understand both Content and the WF databases should be backed almost at the same time.

While reading about this topic, I encountered the following.

When you delete a scope, all its contents (including instances and tracking records) would be cleaned up within a few minutes (the process is asynchronous). (https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/jj730570(v=azure.10).aspx)

Would someone have more information on this ? What process takes care of these clean up jobs ?  So when the scope is deleted (site collection or sub site) all the related running wf instances are deleted too ?

Thanks 

Hi Dineth,

This is a note to let you know that I am performing research on this topic, this may need some time, thanks for your understanding.

Thanks

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Thanks a lot for the reply. 

In the meantime, I also did my own research and I found the running instances (and more) are indeed deleted from the WF database, when the scope gets deleted. I am yet to find which process does it though, but I believe it's the WFM back end process. 

Thank you..

Dineth