I’ve created an explicit archive policy. This policy is assigned in person document. I believe, this enables archiving ONLY for a user mail file.
I have one program document ‘compact -a mail’. This triggeres archiving for all databases in mail directory, however only few person documents have policy assigned.
I see in the log, that archiving has been trigerred for EVERY database in the directory: ‘Archiving documents from mail\mailname.nsf’, but only those with policy assigned show in the log this message: ‘Archived mail\mailname.nsf, 0 documents were archived and 0 were deleted’.
Which databases are archived then? All of them? Can I archive ordinary database?
Subject: There’s 1 thing not clear to me concerning the archiving
I think the compact command will run on all mail files but, as you imply in your post, only those with archive settings set will be processed by the archiving subcomponent of “compact”. You could, however, have users who have manually set up their archiving settings on their mail file who may be inadvertantly processed by your “compact” task (so your policy, while valid, may not be the only mechanism by which documents are moved by the compact -a task).
FYI I’ve seen the “compact” archiving method tested rigorously under 6.5.4 and it never worked 100% reliably. Maybe we just set it up wrong (we tried may configurations) but in the end we opted for archiving policies which were then implemented client-side (i.e, the users must archive documents manually via “actions/archive selected documents” within their mailfiles). So my only word of caution for what you are doing is “test, test and re-test” before you put any kind of server-side archiving live in your environment.
HTH
Phil
Subject: RE: There’s 1 thing not clear to me concerning the archiving
Hi Phil, thank you for your reply. You are right … Archiving was a nightmare for me as well, but I think, I’ve managed it. In my case, the problem was, that or the archiving wasn’t trigerred at all, or it was trigerred, but the log says something like: “Archived mail\mailname.nsf, 0 documents were archived and 0 were deleted”. However, I was sure, there are some documents to be archived.
After some time I have resolved the problem. You can find the way here: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=899&context=SSKTK9&context=SSKTL5&context=SSKTM2&context=SSKTMJ&context=SSPQ69&context=SSCVRGU&context=SSPQ7E&context=SSPQ5C&context=SS5N9B&context=SS5NA4&context=SSKTPA&context=SS5LUA&context=SSMT72&context=SSMSB2&context=SSTJRD&context=SSKTWB&context=SSKTWP&context=SSYSVG&context=SSKTXQ&context=SSKTYF&context=SSTJRP&context=SSKTZF&dc=DB510&dc=DB520&dc=D800&dc=D900&dc=DA900&dc=DA800&dc=DB530&dc=DA600&dc=D600&dc=D700&dc=DA500&dc=D200&dc=DA410&dc=DA450&dc=DA430&dc=DA440&dc=DA420&dc=DA460&dc=DB300&dc=DA470&dc=DA480&dc=DB100&dc=DA4A10&dc=DA4A20&dc=DA700&dc=DA4A30&dc=DB550&dc=D100&q1=archiving+policy&uid=swg21162287&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=all
Maybe this helps you somehow (I hope you manage the URL as it’s rather long)
Thx again for your response.