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PRB: Archive does not fit on the final media

Document ID: Q101018

This article applies to the following:
Product(s): Second Opinion Standard 4.0, Second Opinion Professional 3.x
Last Revised On: October 20, 2010

Summary

An archive was created on a temporary location so that it could then be moved to a final media; however the archive now contains more data than fits on that media and can't be copied to it.


Discussion

The archive program gives you three choices on how to create an archive: Disk drive, CD-ROM, and Other. The choices cause the program to behave as follows:

Choice How it is used
Disk drive The archive program assumes that the destination you choose is in fact the ultimate destination; and that you will NOT be moving that archive to any other (potentially smaller) media. When saving files to the disk, the program first determines how much empty space is on the disk, then it saves any folders that are small enough to fit onto that disk; making sure not to write a partial folder. If the disk becomes full and there are more folders to archive, it asks you to enter another disk and continues the process.
CD-ROM This choice works exactly like the Other option (described below), but assumes a size of 650,000 KB.
Other The archive program assumes that the destination you choose is a temporary location; and that you will ultimately move that archive to a final media. The program needs to know the size of that final media so that it can break up the archive to fit onto one or more volumes of that media as necessary. You should enter a conservative amount for the size, since some of that my be used by the operating system for file management.

Solution

If, after you create the archive, you need to move those files to a different volume, but that volume does not have enough space to store the entire archive, you can do one of the following:

  • If you created the archive using the Create a copy archive type, you can simply create a new archive using the Other media type and enter the correct final volume size.
  • If you created the archive using the Move documents or Move folders archive type, then your Second Opinion records have already been deleted and marked as archived. You must restore those archived documents before re-archiving using the correct final volume size.

    NOTE: 1) If the archive is not your most recent archive, do not proceed and contact Customer Support instead. 2) Make sure the location where you normally store your Second Opinion documents has enough space to received the archived files (if you have not added any new files on that disk since the archive, it should have enough space).
     

    1. Run the Archive program.
    2. Click Restore.
    3. Select the archive by clicking on the box next to its description to display the check mark.
    4. Click Finish.
    5. The records and files will be restored to the Second Opinion database and documents.
    6. When the archive is complete, exit the program and make sure you can access the documents from Second Opinion without requiring that archive volume.
    7. Run the Archive program again.
    8. Click Archive.
    9. Select the desired options. When asked to choose between Disk drive, CD-ROM, or Other, choose Other and enter a conservative number for the amount of free space (in Kilobytes, 1 KB = 1,024 bytes) on the final destination media. For example, if your final destination is a 3.5" floppy disk (in reality, you would normally not use a 3.5" floppy disk, since it cannot hold much data) with a capacity of 1,457,664 bytes, enter 1400 KB.

When the archive is completed, you can copy the files to the final media using whatever copy software will work for that device (CD-ROM burner, tape writer, or other).

 

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