Interrupting and Continuing Archiving Sessions
In order that Data Archiving can be seamlessly integrated into the production system, you can interrupt an active archiving session that is still in the write phase and continue it at a later time. This enables you to react, during archiving, to specific time constraints or hard-disk space shortages. You can continue and complete interrupted archiving sessions when you have more time or more storage space.
This function is a part of the Archive Administration (transaction SARA) and requires the support of the write program.
If you want to interrupt an archiving session, the following prerequisites must be fulfilled:
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The archiving object must be registered in transaction AOBJ as interruptible, so that the Archive Development Kit (ADK) is able to inform the write program of the interruption request.
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The write program is able to process the interruption request.
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The archiving session must be run in production mode (not test mode) and be in process.
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The settings in transaction AOBJ allow the delete phase to start before the write phase has finished.
If you want to continue the interrupted archiving session, the following prerequisites must be fulfilled:
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The session was interrupted using this interruption concept. Archiving sessions that were interrupted for other reasons or that were terminated by Archive Administration cannot be continued.
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The delete phase must be completed for the data that was archived up to the point of interruption (status Completed).
The write phase of an interruptible archiving session can be interrupted either implicitly (based on the values that are specified in Cross-Archiving Object Customizing or explicitly (manually by an Application Programming Interface (API) Remote Administration Function.