In addition the data had to be stored reliably and a RAID system should be used. Also in this field was no knowledge on the UNIX side. Now all of this is past and we have to face the fact that all VMS systems will be phased out by he end of the year 2000. We have to get prepared to run archiving on UNIX and to store the data on disks connected to UNIX file servers. Specially the last point is getting critical since the disk space on VMS is already critical.
Many data have to be stored on magnetic tape.
This way we cannot provide the service to have all data of the last three years online - as we promised to our users. In order to have enough time for testing and thus provide a stable archive service we have to get the archive process running as soon as possible. Special situations like IOC reboot system reboot of the workstation filled disks etc. need to be tested before the new program will run in operation mode. This functionality will need to be disabled through compile switches and ifdef statements. The code needs to be managed through CVS to be able to work with several people on the same code.