If the Archive Settings dialog box is not open, choose File - Database - Properties and click "Archive Settings."

You can click Change to:

• Select a different destination (local or server) for the archive database.
• Change whether archiving is performed by a Domino server (server-based archiving) or by the Notes client on your computer (client-based archiving). For more information, see Specifying the computers where archiving runs and where the archive is stored.

If the Change button is dim, and you see a message that an administration policy has a lock, your organization's Domino administrator has set an archive policy for mail databases. Ask your administrator whether the policy is set to client-based archiving. If so, you may need to leave your computer on at the time of day when archiving is scheduled to occur, or change the time on the Advanced page of the Archive Settings dialog box. When a server performs archiving, the server controls the time archiving occurs (once a day at 1:00 a.m.). When your Notes client software performs archiving, your local computer must be on at the time specified in the schedule.

For more information, see Specifying a schedule for client-based archiving.

Archiving status information

The Basics page also shows archiving status information from the last time archiving ran.

Note Numbers of documents processed shown in this area may not correspond exactly to the number of documents you selected for archiving. As with replication, archiving is efficient and may find ways to avoid processing every document in a selection or database.

See Also

Specifying the computers where archiving runs and where the archive is stored
Creating, editing, and enabling sets of archive criteria
Customizing archive settings, log, and schedule
Why can't I click options in the Archive Settings dialog box for my mail?