Archive files

To archive files, select the files that you want to archive. You can select the files by name or description, or select them from a directory tree.

Your administrator might set up schedules to automatically archive certain files on your workstation. The following sections contain information about how to archive files without using a schedule.

You must assign an archive description for all archived files. An archive description identifies data through a meaningful description that you can use later to identify files and directories. You can enter as many as 254 characters to describe your archived data. If you do not enter a description, the following default archive description is assigned:

   Archive Date: mm/dd/yyyy

where mm/dd/yyyy is the current date.

When you select the archive function from the backup-archive GUI, a list of all previously used archive descriptions are displayed. You can assign these archive descriptions to future archives.

Incremental backup might recall migrated files, while selective backup and archive always recall migrated files, if you do not use the skipmigrated option.