Perform incremental archiving

Use
Incremental Archiving
 to defer control of batch archiving to
FactoryTalk® Event Archiver
 and to perform batch reporting at user-defined intervals during batch execution. Specify the incremental period between active archiving in
Minutes
 or
Seconds
. The minimum setting is 5 seconds or 1 minute. The maximum is 9999 minutes. Setting the value outside of this range causes
FactoryTalk Event Archiver
 to run in 5 minute incremental periods.
To update the incremental period after making changes, stop and restart the
FactoryTalk Event Archiver
 service.
Configure the Incremental Archiving with a Windows user account that has administrative privileges to log on to the system. When using incremental archiving, configure
FactoryTalk Event Archiver
 to run as a Windows service with an automatic startup type. Use the
FactoryTalk Batch Service Manager
 to monitor and control
FactoryTalk Event Archiver
 service. See the for information on enabling
FactoryTalk Event Archiver
 as a service.
To perform incremental archiving
  1. Open
    FactoryTalk® Administration Console
     and sign in to the
    FactoryTalk
     Network Directory.
  2. In
    FactoryTalk Administration Console
    Explorer
    , do one of the following:
    • For a new
      FactoryTalk Batch
       Server, right-click the application or the area name and select
      Add New Server
      FactoryTalk Batch Server
      .
    • For an existing
      FactoryTalk Batch
       Server, expand the application or the area name, right-click the server, and select
      Properties
      .
  3. In the
    FactoryTalk Batch Services Properties
     dialog, select the
    Batch Reporting
     tab.
  4. In the
    Archive method
     dropdown list, select
    Incremental Archiving
    .
  5. In the
    Archiver properties
     area, select
    Delete the event journal file after it is fully archived
     to enable the deletion of the
    .evt
     or
    .evtj
     files after
    FactoryTalk Event Archiver
     has stored the data in the ODBC database.
    IMPORTANT: Deleting files after archiving is not a reversible action and is not recommended.
  6. In
    Table name
    , type the name of the table that contains the batch data.
    The default is
    BHBatchhis
    .
  7. In
    Incremental period
    , type a value.
  8. In the
    Period units
     dropdown list, select
    Minutes
     or
    Seconds
    .
  9. To save the data in the
    Batch Reporting
     tab, select
    Apply
    .
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