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Archiving
Archiving
Archiving
Create archive files: the data to be archived are first written sequentially into
a newly created file. The data then exist twice in the database. These archive
files can, e.g. be passed to an archive system, via Archive Link.
Execute delete program: the data in the archive files are removed from the
database by the delete program.
You can check how the archive filenames and archive destination are setup
in transaction FILE
Always remembers to check the setting before any archiving. The settings
will determine things like whether the delete programs will start
automatically. (it is not advisable to start your delete programs
automatically).
You can configure all the customizing settings with transaction AOBJ Archive Objects.
- transaction OBR7
There are no posting date or fiscal year/period selection. You can only
specify the billing documents date. In order that you do not archive the
wrong record, you have to write a ABAP query or report to print out the
various billing documents number ranges you want to archive. You can
extract the data from table VBRK - Billing: Header Data.
Use TCode SARA to write your tables of the archiving object from the
database to archive physical archive file defined in point 2. Choose the
archiving object .
Create a variant which will help you in deciding whether you want to retain
the table entries for the archiving object in the database after archiving or to
delete them after archiving.
Write the archiving object from the database to the archive path defined by
creating a write variant and mentioning the variant created in the previous
step during the maintainance of the variant. and execute. Ur archival of the
object is done.
To read the archived item -- goto SARA and read the object by selecting the
object name.
Archiving is the term or process which removes the old data from your SAP
R/3 system and stores the same data on some other storage system such
IXOS.
There are a lots to learn about SAP data archiving...you can either learn
online or go through the book called "Archiving your SAP data" ..this is good
for beginners.
SARA is the only transaction that will help you to launch the archive jobs in
background for a particular archiving object.
This is nothing but Archive administration where you do the customizing, see
the stastics, database tables, information etc etc of a particular archiving
object.
Please go through the step defined below for archiving material master.just
change the archiving object MM_MATNR and put MM_MATBEL
Before Archiving the Material Master the materials need to be flagged for
deletion in T Code MM06/MM16.
Archiving the materials is done thro T Code SARA. All the SAP archive
functions are shown in SARA. Choose the corresponding SAP archive object,
hit enter and the archive administration menu will be shown.
When a material is no longer required in a company or plant, you can archive
and delete the material master record.
Before a material master record can be archived and deleted, other objects
(such as purchasing documents) that refer to this material must themselves
be archived. You can see which objects these are and the dependencies
between them in the network graphic.
Type in a variant name and click Maintain. (Tick the Test Mode for archive
simulation).
Maintain the Start date and Spool parameters and click execute.
Click Test Session for testing or click execute to start the deletion program.