Archive Administration
Use
The most important actions relating to data archiving take place in the Archive Administration (transaction
SARA
).
Note
The definition of an archiving object determines which actions are possible for the archiving object. Consequently, all the following archiving functions are not always offered in Archive Administration.
Features
Preprocessing
Enables you to schedule and run preprocessing programs. Preprocessing programs prepare data objects for archiving, for example, by setting a deletion indicator. See Scheduling Preprocessing .
Write
Enables you to schedule and run a write program to create archive files. The program copies the relevant data objects sequentially to the archive files that were previously created. See Creating Archive Files .
Delete
Enables you to schedule and run delete programs. Data objects that were successfully imported into the archive file created are deleted from the database. See Deleting Data from the Database .
Postprocessing
Enables you to schedule and run postprocessing programs. Postprocessing programs carry out operations following an archiving session, such as updating statistics. See Scheduling Postprocessing .
Read
Enables you to schedule and run a program that reads and analyzes archived data. See Reading Archive Files .
Index
Enables an index to be built or deleted for existing archive files. The index is required to display individual documents belonging to several archiving objects. See Building an Index and Deleting an Index .
Storage System
Enables archive files to be transferred to a connected storage system and enables stored archive files to be retrieved from a storage system. See Storing Archive Files and Retrieving Stored Archive Files .
Management
Offers an overview of archiving sessions for one archiving object. From here, you can display and analyze object-specific management information. See Archive Administration: Overview of Archiving Sessions and Calling Archive Session Management .
Further Functions
Depending on the action you have selected, you can use
Goto
and
Environment
on the menu to access the following menu options, or you can access them directly from the application bar:
(
documentation
): Access to the archiving-object-specific documentation in the SAP LibraryJob Overview: Offers an overview of all archiving jobs and the functions available for processing them.
Stored Files: Enables you to search for stored archive files according to various selection criteria
Check/Delete : Cross-archiving-object check and delete function - available via
Environment
.
Activities
You can call the Archive Administration:
By entering the transaction
SARA
in the command field
By choosingTools
Administration
Management
Data Archiving
Directly from the application
If you choose an archiving function in the application, the relevant archiving object is automatically specified in Archive Administration. Otherwise, you must specify it manually.