OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Setup & Installation
Setting the number of Desktop archives
Neil Waldhauer:
In the Desktop properties of eComStation, you can set the number of archives that the system keeps.
But if you set the system to keep 7 archives, then later set it back to 3, it will continue keeping 7 archives.
The number you set seems to be kept in ARCHBASE.$$$, byte 216. I do not know where the number OS/2 uses is kept.
Doug Bissett:
Is it actually still rotating 7, or is it simply rotating 3, and ignoring the other 4? If it is ignoring 4 of them, they should probably be removed.
Neil Waldhauer:
Yes, it's actively rotating through all 7. Desktop is set to keep 3 copies. I'd have liked it to delete the other 4 automatically. Did the original IBM properties provide for a number of copies?
ivan:
In our WSeB boxes the base number of desktop archives is three PLUS the Maintenance desktop 0X and the CURRENT making a total of five.
ARCHBASE.$$$ holds the information as to where the archives are stores and ARCHIVES.$$$ (in the archive directory) gives the archive details as seen on the AltF1 startup screen.
You could delete the unwanted backups but you would need to also edit the ARCHIVES.$$$ file to reflect what remains.
Andreas Schnellbacher:
Neil, in case you want just your inis being saved, Rich's DMT should be a more valuable tool for recovering than the standard WPS archiving. It recognizes ini corruption well, offers then a menu automatically and also on demand. It has worked for me all the times I had to use it. Since confirmed to work well, I don't use XWP's WPS archiving anymore. There are still situations when XWP warns about ini corruption but at the reboot it shows that it was false alarm, where DMT was always right.
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