Data Archiving 

Purpose

With the increased use of a productive business application, the volume of master data and transaction data in the system database can grow rapidly, which can, in turn, lead to reduced performance and increased costs. SAP data archiving, an SAP NetWeaver function, enables you to control your data volume on a long-term basis by relocating data that is no longer needed in the current business processes to archive files. Here, the data remains available for read-only access.

The data archiving solution in the application-specific areas is based on the SAP standard solution for data archiving, which so far has been used in SAP ERP solutions, for example. Before you start archiving, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the fundamentals of SAP data archiving. For more information about data archiving, see Introduction to Data Archiving.

Overview of Archiving Documentation

To enable you to access the information that you need for your archiving more quickly, the documentation is structured as follows:

●      The introduction to data archiving explains the basics of SAP data archiving and describes the relevant processes and procedures. This is indispensable reading for understanding data archiving.

●      The documentation for data archiving in the application-specific area contains specific information about using the relevant archiving objects to archive business objects.