February 22nd, 2021
Miss Honey is about to remove a bunch of old titles from her catalog. But there's one thing she should do beforehand: run an archive.
An archive is a complete copy of your Alexandria database that can be used as a restore point in the event that your data is lost or damaged. It's a quick and automatic way of saving your database before making any large changes, such as performing an import, utility, update, or upgrading your machine.
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In v7, Alexandria no longer prompts you to run an archive before imports and utilities. Archives are a full copy of the entire database, so running too many can take up a lot of space on servers. Alexandria will only hold a certain number of archives before removing older ones.
An archive is automatically run every night during daily maintenance. If you are self-hosted, keep your server on at night for this reason.
There are two places you can manually run an archive if you need another:
/admin > Status >
Tools > Utilities > Database >
In v6, Alexandria will still prompt you to create an archive before imports and utilities. To manually run an archive, go to File > Archive Now.
You can restore archives from
meaning you need to belong to a security group with a high security level, such as District Admin. If you need to restore an archive, please
for assistance.
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