You can use report program RCPREDEL to set existing deletion flags in all change statuses of a master recipe. Execute this report once after transferring data from an older release to achieve the same level of data in the old and new recipes.

You specify technical values for an archiving run, such as the name, path, and maximum size of the archive file in archive Customizing. For more information on archive Customizing, see the SAP Library Application Data Archiving and Reorganization, under Customizing.

For more information on the general authorization check, see the SAP Library CA - Application Data Archiving and Reorganization, under User Authorization Check.