Restart capability with archived files from a middle cycle of workflow

[nickcctong17]

I am trying to restart forecasts from a middle cycle of my workflow.
While realizing that ARCH_WARMICFREQ=4 in my configuration, I do see that there's additional "gdas_restarta.tar" archived for cycle 00 in every 4 days.
However, I found this specific tarball only contains surface analysis files (sfcanl_data.tileX.nc), which is not sufficient for a warm-start.
Can someone help point out what else setting I'm missing here to save a complete set of restart files?
Many thanks!

[JessicaMeixner-NOAA]

Depending on what configuration you are using you may or may not have all these tar files, but you'll need the following files for restarts:

From previous cycle
gdas_restartb.tar
gdasocean_restart.tar
gdaswave_restart.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp1.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp2.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp3.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp4.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp5.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp6.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp7.tar
enkfgdas_restartb_grp8.tar

From current cycle
gdas_restarta.tar
gdasocean_analysis.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp1.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp2.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp3.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp4.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp5.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp6.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp7.tar
enkfgdas_restarta_grp8.tar

[nickcctong17]

Thanks, Jessica, for the quick response.
As I'm running atmosphere-only workflow, it's likely I won't have the gdasocean_restart.tar or gdaswave_restart.tar.
The red flag here is that I don't have any of those tarballs with "restartb" as suffix (all I have is restarta) for both gdas and enkfgdas.
Besides, I am only having grp1-4 for my 80 member runs.

[JessicaMeixner-NOAA]

Did you look in the previous 18z cycle? It wont be in the same directory as the restarta

[nickcctong17]

Ahh yes! They are in the previous 18Z cycle I found.
Thank you very much!