Task overview

This section overviews archive conversion tasks in Rational® Synergy Release 7.2.

About this task

Archive conversion is the process of reading older archives produced by GNU or BSD archivers, and writing new archives in the 7.2 format. The archive conversion process deletes old archive files and directories as it converts archives.

Rational Synergy provides a web administration interface that you can use to start, stop, and report on the progress of archive conversion.

Procedure

  1. Upgrade from 7.0, 7.1, or 7.1a to Release 7.2.
  2. Complete the steps in Preparing for archived data conversion.
  3. Complete the steps in Converting archived data.

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