Archive conversion is the process of reading older archives produced by GNU or BSD archivers, and writing new archives in the 7.1 format. The archive conversion process deletes old archive files and directories as it converts archives.
Rational provides a Synergy Web Administration Interface that you can use to start, stop, and report on the progress of archive conversion.
Advantages of converted archives
Here are the advantages of converted archives:
In some cases, a database might consume more disk space after archive conversion in Synergy 7.1. A future release reduces the space taken by archives> For this reason, you might want to postpone archive conversion until a later release.
The CM administrator must run the ccm fs_check command and resolve any reported errors before attempting archive conversion.