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Question about Project Web App regarding archiving completed projects
Microsoft has a knowledge article about how to "Archive a completed project in Project server 2010". The standard method involves quite a few steps, and there are three alternate methods offerred.
The second alternate method is to Remove Project from the Draft Database.
What is the Draft Database and how do you get to it?
Further in the description of this second alternate method, it is stated that to restore the project, one may choose "Administrative Restore" in the Server Settings, but there appears to be no such option in PWA Server Settings. Could you please shed some light on that.
Finally, there is a Project Online article about and a cue job for Deleting Archived Projects. Does the word "Archived" in that article refer to articles that have been backed up by either the standard or any of the alternate methods described in the article "Archive a completed project in Project server 2010", or is it in reference to a particular archiving method before deleting?
Thank you!
I would recommend you completely ignore the articles you reference. The two best ways to archive a project using Project Online are shown in Paul Mather's latest post. Use one of those tow methods and you will be happy with the results. Hope this helps.