Archiving
Purpose
In the IT process Archiving the actual archiving takes place. This process includes the scheduling and control of write and delete jobs, for example. All of the important functions necessary for data archiving are contained in Archive Administration (transaction SARA).
Use of the Process
This IT process is part of the following IT scenario:
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Prerequisites
You have determined which data in your system needs to be archived and you have identified the archiving objects that archive the data you want. You have also made the necessary Customizing settings.
Process Flow
1. Scheduling and Executing Write Jobs
Write jobs are scheduled with the Write function from within Archive Administration. Here you must enter different parameters and criteria to select the data that is to be archived. The write jobs can then be started immediately or can be scheduled to run at a later point in time.
During the write job the system selects, based on the selection criteria and parameters you entered, the data to be archived and writes it from the database to an archive.
2. Scheduling and Executing a Delete Job
Delete jobs are scheduled with the Delete function from within Archive Administration. During the archiving process data can only be deleted from the database after it has been successfully written to the archive during the write session. You can delete data immediately or schedule the deletion to run at a later point in time.
During the delete job the system checks, based on the selection criteria and parameters you entered, whether or not the data has been successfully written to the archive. If so, it then deletes the data from the database.
3. Scheduling and Execution of the Storage Phase (this step only applies for ADK-based archiving and is optional)
The storage of archived data can be scheduled from within Archive Administration. In Customizing you can determine whether storage is supposed to take place automatically and at which point in time. It is also possible to use the Archive Routing function to segregate the data into different content repositories during archiving. Moreover, you can store already archived data manually using the Storage System function in Archive Administration.
The Logs function, which is available in Archive Administration, provides a central point of access to the main logs generated during data archiving, such as job overview, spool list, and the application log. These logs provide you with information about the progress of the archiving sessions and how the objects being archived have been processed.
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Result
You have removed the data you wanted from the database and written it to an archive in a secure manner. Depending on the requirements outlined in your archiving project, you have stored the data in an external storage system.