Note If you are archiving your mail and the Change button is not available, your administrator has specified a policy for archiving mail databases that prohibits you from choosing between client-based and server-based archiving.

For more information, see Administration policies for archiving mail.

When the Notes software on your computer performs archiving, for non-mail databases, you can specify the schedule for archiving to correspond to the most convenient time each day for you to leave your computer running. For mail databases, if a policy specifies client-based archiving for your mail, it may also let you control the schedule, depending on how the administrator created the policy.

When archiving runs on the Domino server, you can turn your computer off at any time without interfering with archiving.

If the Choose Archive Server dialog box is not open, open the database you want to archive, choose File - Database - Properties, click "Archive Settings," and click Change.

To specify a performance and destination computer:

1. To select the computer that performs archiving, do one of the following:

• For Notes client-based archiving, select "On my Notes Client to."
• For server-based archiving, select "On the Domino server."
Tip If you are set up as a roaming user, and you want to use client-based archiving, specify it from your primary roaming computer.

• Select a server or Local from the "On my Notes Client to" list.
• Select a server from the "On the Domino server" list. To specify a local destination, select Other in the "to the Domino server" list, and select Local from the next dialog box.
Note For each set of archive criteria, there may be a separate file name and path for the archive database, but all of them must be on one computer. For information on specifying the file names/paths, see Specifying the file path for an archive or archive log database.

See Also

Archiving mail messages to free up space
Setting up as a roaming user