VISTA Plus for MPE Administrator's Guide

Chapter 9
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Archive Rules Window
Archive rules specify the number of report copies to be retained, and when to store reports to tape
or optical disk.
When establishing archive rules, you can specify either Generations or Months and Days. If you use
Generations and specify five, VISTA will save the five most recent copies of a report. If you use
Months and Days, VISTA will save all copies of a report that accumulate for the specified period.
The VISTA clean program (VISTACLN.PUB.NETBASE) process examines the archive rules to
determine which reports to remove from a folder and whether the removed reports should be placed
on tape for long-term storage.
The Archive Rules window shown below appears when you press F7, Archive Rules, from the
Report Maintenance window.