Archive Documents

Meridian allows archiving of documents and metadata to a location outside of the vault. The files can then be copied to an offline media or imported into a different system.

Archiving documents can be useful:

• To create long-term storage copies of completed projects for future reference or auditing purposes
• To remove old revisions of documents that are no longer required
• To reclaim disk space occupied by unused documents. However, the database size will not change appreciably after archiving.

Archiving is performed by the Vault Archive Wizard in the Meridian Enterprise Administrator. The wizard gives you control over:

• Which documents are archived.
• Where to create the archive files.
• Which of several standard formats in which to store the metadata.
• Which revisions are archived.
• What data is removed from the vault for archived documents, if any.
• When the archive process will occur, immediately or at a scheduled time.

The following topics describe how to archive documents and the various options available.