Archive Administration
Use
The most important actions relating to data archiving take place in Archive Administration. Archive Administration offers only those actions that have been defined for the archiving object.
You can access Archive Administration as follows:
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Transaction code SARA
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Menu path
Tools 
Administration Administration Data Archiving
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Application Menu
Executing the Archiving Actions
You can schedule the following actions, for example, as a background job in Archive Administration:
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Preprocessing
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Creating archive files
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Deleting data from the database
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Storing archive files
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Postprocessing
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Reading archive files
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Filling or emptying the index for archive files
More information: Executing Data Archiving
Administration
You can display and evaluate administration information in the overview of all archiving sessions for an archiving object.
More information:
Other Functions
You can choose the following menu options direct from the application bar or, depending on the action chosen, using Goto or Environment:
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Job Overview: Offers an overview of current archiving jobs and the functions available for processing them.
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Stored Files: Enables you to search for stored archive files according to various selection criteria.
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Check/Delete: Cross-archiving-object check and delete function - available using Environment.