Data Archiving in SAP
Key Takeaways
⇨ Data archiving in SAP helps reduce database size and improve system performance by moving outdated data to an archive system.
⇨ The archiving process involves creating archive data, deleting it from the database, and filing it in an archive system using SAP-certified solutions like KGS Content Server.
⇨ Effective data archiving requires collaboration between IT and other departments to determine archiving objects, retention times, and customization for optimal system integration and minimal disruption.
Databases in SAP systems tend to grow rapidly. The SAP base constantly must increase its memory and performance evertheless drops. Only data archiving can help permanently reduce the data stored online in the database in the long term.
There are functions in the SAP system which are specifically designed to remove data that is no longer needs to be accessed online in SAP, by means of a mass data export from the SAP data- base.
It is important that these data remain evaluable even once they have been archived. As part of this archiving procedure, SAP documents (data records) are written to archive files where they can be stored in an archiving system using SAP ArchiveLink® or WEBDAV ILM. With our SAP certified Content Server solution, kgs provides the ideal archiving platform, which is perfectly adapted for the requirements of SAP and constitutes a very streamlined archiving system.
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For SAP users, data archiving means minimal load on the system, which in turn improves system runtime. Security and recovery times are also significantly reduced and (planned) system down-time is kept to a minimum.
The archiving procedures are generally scheduled cyclically as background jobs and can even be run during online operation.
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