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External References  | Select this menu item to Enable External References in an agent profile field. Refer to Enabling External References in an Agent Profile Field in 8.12 11 External Reference Profile for further information. |
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Switch Policy | If several base directories are configured, the switch policy determines for how long the Archive services will populate each base directory before starting to populate the next one (daily, weekly, or monthly). After the last base directory has been populated, the archiving wraps to the first directory again. | |||||||||||||||
Base Directory | One or several base directories that can be used for archiving of files. For considerable amounts of data to be archived, several base directories located on different disk partitions might be needed. | |||||||||||||||
Directory Template | List of tokens that, in run-time, builds subdirectory names appended to one of the base directories. The tokens could be either special tokens or user defined values. Subdirectories on any level, can be constructed by using the special token Directory delimiter. See the section below, Directory Template. | |||||||||||||||
Remove Entries (days) | If enabled, files older than the entered value will be deleted from the archive. Depending on the agent using the profile, the removal will occur differently.
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Keep Files | Files will not be deleted. If Keep Files and Remove Entries (days) are combined, only references in the database are removed while the files remain on disk. (not valid for the Local Archiving agent). |
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You enable External Referencing of profile fields from the Archive profile in the Edit menu. For detailed instructions, see 8.12 11 External Reference Profile.
When you apply External Referencing to profile fields, the following profile parameters are affected:
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