Archive history helps you find history you have put aside and check whether an archive or restore finished. Each attempt appears here as a job with a Job number, which lets you return to that same attempt later.
Start with the stock numbers and date to find the job you need. Then read State, which tells you whether the tool finished or still needs to continue. This is especially important if the window closed or the work stopped before you saw a completion message.
Find the job using Created on and Stock numbers, then read State. You need to know whether it is ready to read or still needs to finish before choosing another action. This page fills from the maintenance tools, so read it here and use the menu to act rather than typing over its results.
The time figures describe parts of what the tool did. They do not count all your preparation, waiting during an interruption or time returning to the job. Use them as part of understanding a completed attempt, rather than a promise about how long another one will take.
Job number is the label shown for one archive attempt and its saved history. Copy it exactly when you want to read, restore or continue that attempt. If you are unsure whether it finished, use this number to check or resume it instead of starting again with a new job.
State tells you how far the tool got. Prepared means it saved the archive but has not finished putting the history aside. Archiving means it is still putting history aside; Restoring means it is still bringing history back. With any of these messages, keep normal entry paused and choose Resume selected job for the same job.
Archived means the history was saved, checked and removed from the working entry cells. Restored means the history is back on the working pages with the same stock numbers and relationships. Wait for the completion message before entering more farm work.
The heading Stock identities means the number of different Stock numbers in the archive. One stock number can represent one item or a lot, so this count does not tell you how many physical items were present. Read Stock numbers to recognize the members and retrieve the history for their actual quantities.
Created on is when this maintenance job was created. It helps you distinguish archive jobs made at different times, but it is not the date of every farm activity inside the archive. Receipts, production and observations retain the dates recorded for those events.
Package seconds is the number of seconds the tool spent saving and checking the archive. It does not include your backup, choosing the stock to archive, waiting through an interruption or returning to continue. It is one part of the job’s timing, not the whole time the work took you.
Last write pause seconds is the tool’s recorded time for changing the working entries during an archive or restore. The full period when people could not enter farm work may be longer, especially if the tool stopped and needed resuming. Include that waiting and follow-up when considering how disruptive the maintenance was.
Storage reminds you that the archive is held within this workbook. That makes it available for later retrieval or restoration here, but losing the workbook can also lose its archive. Keep a separately made and checked copy as an additional safeguard.
These are the stock numbers saved together in the job. Read them when choosing between archives with similar dates. Each number still belongs to its original stock while archived and comes back unchanged on restore, so do not use it for new stock.