USER AND SERVER CONFIGURATION

Using the mail archive log
To monitor mail document archiving, you can log archiving activity to an archive log database. Information stored in a user's Archive Log include the log date, the number of documents stored in the archive database and deleted from the mail file, archive failures, and the locations of the original mail file source and archives destinations.

You can use the mail archive log, for example, to track a document you thought was deleted. You can easily scan the Archive Log to see if the document was archived. And since the archive log provides links to archived documents, you can access the archived document from within the archive log.

Specifying the name and location for the Archive Log database

By default, the archive log database is stored in c:\notes\data\archive, where archive is the default name for the archive directory. The default name format for a user's archive log database file is l_xxxx.nsf, where l_ is the prefix and xxxx is the name of the user's mail database. The name of the log database is based on a specified number of characters (the default is 6) from the user's ID. For example, for the end user John Smith, whose ID is jsmith, the archive log database name is l_jsmith.nsf.

For more information about the type of information stored in an Archiving Log, see Viewing a Document Archiving Log.

Archive policy settings provide administrative control for archiving mail databases only. To archive system databases or to archive without using Archive policy settings, use the document archiving tool. For more information about the document archiving tool and retrieving archived documents, see the topic "Archiving documents" if you have installed Lotus Notes 7 Help.

Archive log file title

When a user archives a mail database to an archive log file, the log file title reflects the name of the user's mail file. The user can then manually change that log file name if desired. If logging is turned off for mail archiving, this does not apply.

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