Export / Archive of Project Area
I've been looking into the Archiving of Projects. It seems to me that the Project Archive only hides the project from users and performs no other functions on the project area.
Ideally, I'd like to use repotools to export the project to file (CD/DVD or Tape eventually) to then be removed entirely from RTC. Obviously this wouldn't happen as I can't find anything in repotools that would satisfy it without taking the entire database.
Taking the source files would be one option, however by just exporting them I would lose all the metadata and work items that are attributed to the files.
Cheers
Tel
Ideally, I'd like to use repotools to export the project to file (CD/DVD or Tape eventually) to then be removed entirely from RTC. Obviously this wouldn't happen as I can't find anything in repotools that would satisfy it without taking the entire database.
Taking the source files would be one option, however by just exporting them I would lose all the metadata and work items that are attributed to the files.
Cheers
Tel
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I've been looking into the Archiving of Projects. It seems to me that the Project Archive only hides the project from users and performs no other functions on the project area.
Correct. Archiving a project area (or archiving anything else for that matter) simply makes it harder to see the project area, and therefore harder to use it. Archiving never deletes anything from the repository.
There is no mechanism to completely delete a project area from a repository.
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David Olsen, IBM Rational, Jazz Process Team