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Project Archive
Prepared by:
Darren Cox
Business Systems Manager - Primavera
Infrastructure
CB&I
What to do with those projects that
have completed or have been placed
on hold?
Session ID#: 15415

2. Archive Agenda

3. Archive Agenda
■ Introduction - Abstract
■ Archive Summary
■ Archive Requirements
■ Archive Data Integrity & Security
■ Not Just an Archive!
■ Q&A
■ Contact Information

4. Introduction - Abstract

5. Abstract
■ The ability to archive a completed project from the existing
production database is compounded by the application itself.
When exporting a project from Primavera, all the baselines do
not carry over in the export, thus requiring the user to un-
attach all baselines and restore them as active projects.
Once that has been completed the main project and all
associated baselines must be exported and save to the
predefined location. The ability to review the completed
project with its associated baselines would require the user to
import the project and baselines into a database, restore all
baselines to the project.

6. Archive Summary

7. Archive Summary
■ Solution
▪ Transfer project data from one database to another
▪ Database technologies – Import/Export between the same
and/or different database solutions – No DBA interaction
▪ Web interface – Primavera API / Weblogic /SSL
▪ Project size – No limitations experienced to-date
▪ Multiple projects - One job at a time, succeeding jobs in the
queue

8. Archive Requirements

9. Archive Requirements
■ Requirements
▪ Move closed and/or completed projects from production to
archive
▪ Project deletion
▪ Project restoration
▪ Versioning
▪ Performance
— Primavera API
— Web Interface
— Multiple job handling
▪ Administration module
— Active Directory (AD) / Primavera Security
— Database mappings
— User Access

10. Archive Data Integrity &
Security
This is a subtitle or bulleted list

11. Archive Data Integrity & Security
■ Data Integrity
▪ Error & Transaction logs
▪ Primavera database
▪ Database backups – 1 full backup every 24 hours and
incrementally throughout the day – Fast recovery
▪ Disaster Recovery
■ Data Security
▪ Primavera ‘Admin-Superuser’
▪ Access (Non-admins) - Need-be basis (Read Only)
▪ SOX Compliant?
▪ Primavera API / Weblogic / SSL
▪ Active Directory (AD)
▪ Primavera Security

12. Not Just an Archive!

13. Not Just an Archive!
■ Additional uses
▪ Quarantine – Transfer projects from a quarantine location after
scrubbing into production without the physical export/import
interaction
▪ New Database – Transfer projects from old to new database
▪ Refresh Project Data(Test Environment) – Transfer current
project into test environment – removes need for DBA
■ Future Development
▪ Global Data Export/Import
▪ Global Data Transfer – Transfer Global data between databases

14. Archive Workflow

15. Archive Workflow
Start Process
Update Options
End
Of
Process
Yes
Project
Archived
Select Project
**Exceptions
Yes Yes
No
View Error &
Exception Logs
Cancel?
Yes
End
Of
Process
View Error &
Exception Logs
Cancel?
Yes
End
Of
Process
No
Does Project Exist
in Archive?
Select
Database
No
No
Select
Database
ARCHIVE
Select EPS

16. Contact Information
Darren Cox
Information Technology
Project Controls Systems - Primavera
Tel: +1 704.378.5114
Mail: darren.cox@cbi.com
CB&I
128 South Tryon Street, Suite 1000
Charlotte, NC 28202
United States
www.cbi.com

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