Listing Archives

About this task

The List Archive function returns a list of selected statistics about an archive file. You can specify the server, the archive file name, and the type of information displayed, such as start time, end time, file name, target file size, current file size, current or read-only status, last backup time, and last backup users. You can also specify a range of cells for the display.

Procedure

Select Administration and then select List Archives from the Historian menu.
The Historian Archive List window appears.
Select a server from the drop-down list. If you do not specify a server, the Add-In uses the default server
In the Archive name field, enter an archive name. Do not use wild cards in this field.
In the Output Display section, select one or more parameters for the output display.
To select multiple individual tags, press the Control key and select the tagnames. To select a sequence of tags, press the Shift key and select the first and last tagname of the sequence.
Note: The List Archives Query sorts by archive start time. The archive list will be sorted based on start time whether this field is selected or not.
Select in the Output Range field and select a range of cells in a single row or column to determine where the returned data is placed.
Select Asc or Desc to sort the archives in ascending or descending order.
Select either Columns or Rows for the output display. Selecting Columns displays a table of values with parameters arranged in columns with header labels at the top. Selecting Rows rotates the table 90 degrees.

Note: When selecting multiple tags, the orientation of the return data is based on the orientation of the selected tags and the Row/Col selection is ignored.
Select OK to execute the search. Select Cancel to close the window.

Note: To return details for more than one item, specify a substring in the Archive Name field that exists in each archive you want listed. For example, if you had archives Hero5_Archive0001 -010, you could specify the substring Hero5_Archive to return the details for all those archives.