Archiving is used to store your data at a remote location to improve the performance in BI.
Archiving is a process of moving the data from the sap database to storage system which is not required online and archived data can be read offline when ever user required.
Archiving helps to increase more database size, improvement of the system performance will take care to a greater extant and cost effectiveness for the client with respect to hardware.
We use archiving process in various SAP application areas. We can archive Master data and Transactional datas.
Master data such as Customer master data, Vendor master data, Material master data, Batch master data and so on...
Transaction data such as Sales order, Delivery document, shipment document, Billing document, Purchase requisition, Purchase order, Production Order, Transfer order, Account receivables, Account payables, and so on
Steps should be followed for Archiving in 7.0:
1. Go to transaction -: RSDAP
2. Give info provider name & type- create.
3: Go to General Settings - Give archiving object name.
4. Selection Profile tab- schedule time.
5. ADH (tab)- Specify logical file name.
6. Activate - make sure you copy your archiving object name.
7. go to t-code : SARA give your object name.& click "write request"
8. now create a variable & click on variable & click on MAINTAIN.
9. select a field Then- CONTINUE
10. go to "FURTHER RESTRICTION(tab)"give a value
11. go to to processing options: click on production mode.
12. save
13. Attribute (tab): give a name & save
14. give start date & print parameters.
15. Execute.