Creating content archival content maintenance tasks

Create a content archival content maintenance task to move report output within folders and packages for archiving to your external repository.

About this task

You can create and schedule a content archival task to mark report output versions, which are in folders and packages, for archival. Content that is marked for archival is copied and saved in your external repository.

Folders and packages that are marked for archival cannot be deleted from the content store until successfully moved and saved in the external repository.

Procedure

Launch IBM® Cognos® Administration.
On the Configuration tab, click Content Administration.
On the toolbar, click the new content maintenance icon, and then click Content Archival.
Type a name for the content archival task and, optionally, a description and screen tip. Click Next.
Select the recording level.
Click Add
Select folders, packages, namespaces or namespace folders that you want to mark for archival and click Add.
Click OK.
Click Next.
Choose one of the following:
- To run once now or later, click Save and run once. Click Finish, specify the time and date for the run, then click Run. Review the run time and click OK.
- To schedule at a recurring time, click Save and schedule. Click Finish, and then select frequency and start and end dates. Click OK.
- To save without scheduling or running, click Save only and click Finish.