You archive existing objects to be able to delete them from the current production systems.
Archiving of messages, such as incident or problems, is similar to archiving in SAP Customer Relationship Management.
For more information, see SAP Note 1758090.
When entities are deleted from the LMDB, the system replicates the deletion to the IBase so that the objects can no longer be used in messages and change transactions.
For more information, see Installed Base > Archiving IBase Components.