Archiving Data (FI) (SAP Library - Financial Accounting (FI))

Archiving Data (FI)

Every archiving function can be accessed from archive management.

To reach archive management, choose:

Tools ® Administration ® Administration ® Archiving or

from the General Ledger, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable or Banks menus Periodic processing ® Archiving ® <Archiving object> .

When you access archive management from these menus, the archiving object is defaulted by the system in the field Object name. Otherwise you must enter the name of the archiving object manually. You will find a list of archiving objects in Archiving Financial Accounting Data (FI).

You need to follow a specific procedure when archiving. See Archiving Checklist .

There are two steps to the archiving process:

The system selects the data to be archived and writes it to archive files.

For each archive file the system starts a delete program that reads the data in the archive file and deletes this data from the database.

For more information on how to archive objects, see the descriptions of the individual archiving objects titled Creating Archive Files - <archiving object>.