Creating Archive Files 

Prerequisites

You are in the screen Archive Administration: Initial Screen (transaction SARA), and the name of the object name appears in the Object Name field.

Procedure

  1. Choose Archive.

    2. You access the screen for scheduling a background job.

    If the object has already been archived and there are unprocessed archive files, a dialog box will warn you of this.

    In this case, you must ensure that the new job to be scheduled does not select the same data that the unprocessed archive files contain.

    If the variant that you have selected is already being used for other jobs, you can display these jobs using the Jobs with Selected Variant pushbutton, and if required, delete these.

  2. Choose a variant using input help. If there are no existing variants, choose Variants to maintain the desired variant.

    3. If the option Exec. autom. is set for the deletion program in Customizing for archiving objects and a live archiving program variant is chosen, the deletion program is also executed with its live variant. In other words database deletions are made after the archiving session.

     

  3. Maintain the Start Date and the Spool Parameters.

    4. The Archive Directory pushbutton enables you to establish how much free memory space there is in the current object-specific archive directory.

  4. You have now entered all the data needed for the background job. Choose Create Job to create the job.

After all archive files have been completely written for a run, the system event "SAP_ARCHIVING_WRITE_FINISHED" is started by the ADK. This triggers subsequent processes, such as file backup using external tools.