If you are intending to use Windchill Archive for archiving EPMdoc Data from your Windchill System, then forget the idea and ask for a refund from PTC - it is as much use as a Chocolate Tea Pot. I didn't even think that PTC sold the product anymore.
There is a chance that you may get it to work for lightweight Windchill Part type data - but in my opinion this is unlikely.
The main issue that we ran into is that Windchill Archive is fundamentally limited to creating a maximum archive size of 2GB and it is not possible to work out the size of a data set that you are going to archive until the job runs and then fails as the resulting archive file is bigger that 2GB. You hence have to the keep trying and trying to reduce the data collection rule's scope until you can fit the resulting data to be archived into a size of archive file less that 2GB - this is basically impossible due to all the relationships between EPMdoc data and the size of the files.
We were adding 250GB of data per month to our Windchill System - we would have to create over 125 archives per month just to stay still at our current vault size. Unfortunately, this is not even possible to do due to the limitations of the Windchill Archive Product collection criteria rule manipulation, even if we could find the time and man power to achieve this.
We would only have to select a single Master Assembly from a single Product Context, and then all its dependent components would be selected too, and this would blow straight past the 2GB archive file size limit, causing the Archive job to fail.
How on earth are PTC expects us to archive a 10TB vault in 2GB Archive file sizes is beyond me...
Rgds
Gary
