Function documentationFile Storage to Storage System

 

You can specify here whether an archive file is to be transferred automatically after successful processing to a connected storage system. This can be done manually or automatically using the SAP Content Management Infrastructure (which also contains the ArchiveLink/CMS interface). You can also specify the sequence of the delete and storage phases.

Prerequisites

A storage system is linked to the SAP Business Suite software.

Features

To start automatic storage of the archive file, select the Start Automatically indicator. Select the relevant content repository.

Note Note

If rules and conditions have been defined for the specified archiving object for Archive Routing, it is no longer possible at this point to manually select the content repository as described above. During the archiving process, the Archive Routing settings always override the manual selection of the content repositories. In this case, instead of an input field for the content repository, the system displays the Archive Routing button, which you can use to access Archive Routing to maintain the rules and conditions.

More information:

Archive Routing

Routing of Archive Files to Different Content Repositories

End of the note.

Under Sequence, you can specify when the storage is to take place:

  • If you select Delete Before Storage, the archive file is not stored until it has been processed by the delete program. If the delete program is run in test mode, automatic storage is not carried out. This option improves performance.

    You can use this setting to perform storage manually if no delete program has been run for the archive file. In this case, the system informs you that this does not match the selected sequence. You must then ensure that the file is not stored at the same time as the delete program is active.

  • If you select Store Before Delete, the archive file is stored as soon as the write program has created the archive file, but before the delete program has edited it. The delete program can therefore only remove the contents of an archive file from the database once the archive file has been stored. option offers enhanced backup, as the archived data is not deleted until it has been stored.

    During storage before delete, you can choose Delete Program Reads from the Storage System to control the read behavior of the delete program during the delete process:

    • Indicator selected: After storage, the stored archive file is deleted from the file system. Consequently, during the delete phase, the delete program reads the archive file from the storage system. ensures that the data is only deleted from the database if it was successfully stored in the storage system.

    • Indicator not selected: After storage, the archive file is not deleted from the file system. The delete program reads the archive file from the file system. This setting results in improved performance of the delete program without neglecting backup considerations.

    • If in the settings for the delete program, the radio button Start Automatically is also selected, the delete program is started automatically following storage. It therefore makes no difference whether the delete program is run in test or production mode.

Similarly, if you select After Event,delete jobs are scheduled, but they are not run until triggered by the event that has been configured in the settings for the delete program.