System crash during data archiving

Gurus:
We have a serious concern that is if our R3 server crash during our data archiving runs:
1) if crash happens at write phase, can we simply remove the generated archive , restart the write job?
We are NOT sure if the second run will archive those records that were archived in the failed first run.
2) if crash happens at delete phase, a simple restart of the same delete job will be enough? (We use "store before delete").
Because this archiving is too important to us, please help.
Thanks a lot!

Christoph:
Thank you for your reply.
This crash has not happened yet.
We are making a plan about how to cope with this possibility.
But we do not have experience with any crash during archiving process.
Therefore we ask for people's experience about following scenarios:
1) if crash happens at write phase, can we simply remove the generated archive , restart the write job?
We are NOT sure if the second run will archive those records that were archived in the failed first run.
2) if crash happens at delete phase, a simple restart of the same delete job will be enough? (We use "store before delete").
Would you please help?
Thank you again.

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Is anyone having any issues with InDesign CS3 crashing while doing a data merge with Excel? Microsoft had some updates with the Office products and I'm wondering if one of the updates has caused a communication problem between the two?

I do it pretty often using CS3 and csv files. As I recall, a broken network path to the source caused me a problem once.
At what point is the crash? You could have a corrupt file, create a new one and test. Elsewise, there could be a character within the data source. Are you using .csv source files (I do but many, especially Mac users, go with .txt source files).

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