SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ARCHIVING AND SUPPLYING DOCUMENTS USING A CENTRAL ARCHIVE SYSTEM

The present invention relates to flexible facilities for supplying documents where the index to the documents is stored in a central archive but the documents themselves are stored in an external archiving system. The solution according to the invention is based on management of the addresses in the external archiving systems which is undertaken at the central archive. The approach adopted supports the specifying of any desired number of backup servers and, by allowing the configurable supply either of the address relation itself and/or of server address information attached to the list of search results, it provides a facility which supports the full range of document supply capabilities available when a central archive system is being used.