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Contents:
1.0 Introduction to Enterprise Data Archiving
1.1 Data Archiving – Features
2.0 SAP Data Archiving – Basic Components
2.1 Archiving Objects
2.2 The Archive Development Kit (ADK)
2.3 ArchiveLink® - The Optical Archiving Method
3.0 The Archiving Procedure
3.1 Right Retrieval Strategy
3.2 Three Phase Archiving Process
Phase I
- Creating Archive Files
Phase
II - Deleting files from the Database
Phase
III - Transferring Archive Files
4.0 SAP Data Archiving - Support Tools
4.1 SAP Archive Administration (SARA)
4.2 DART (Data Retention Tool)
4.3 SAP Archive Information System (SARI)
Extracts:
Extract 1 -
Since some of the old data is critical, it cannot be
deleted. The difficulty is keeping the data you want, and deleting the data you
do not want. Hence, a SAP database keeps on expanding rapidly and enterprise
systems, which have limited data retention abilities for a few years, suffer
from problems such as data overflow, longer transaction processing times, and
performance degradation.
Extract
2 - SAP provides
the Archive Development Kit (ADK) for realization of secure and efficient
archiving procedures, to support and simplify the development of archiving
programs. ADK provides a development environment where programming code is
written to call archiving objects. When the program is executed, the
corresponding archiving files are created. Figure 1
illustrates this relationship.
Extract 3 -
Data archiving process comprises three major phases.
They are:
Figure 3 displays an ideal data archiving process.
Concepts covered
in this paper include: ADK (Archive Development Kit), ArchiveLink, Objects,
Transaction AOBJ, Automated Methods, Data Compression, Optical Archiving, SARA,
DART, SARI
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