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Making Archived Data Available to Client Applications
Publishing reads the information needed to locate the archive entries from the
archive volume and copies the information to media database files located in the
directory pointed to by the HS_TMP environment variable. When a request for
published archive data occurs, History uses this media database to find the requested
data.
The contents of a complete volume, or even multiple volumes can be published in
relatively few steps.
The media database files require a certain amount of free disk space on the hard
drive. Un-publish any volumes that are not being accessed on a regular basis to
limit the size of the media database.
This procedure may be performed through either an archive device aspect,
Figure
Archive device aspects are typically located in the Node Administration structure,
under the Industrial IT Archive container for a selected node as shown in
Select the volume to be published, then right-click and choose Publish from the
context menu.
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Section 7 Configuring Archives
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