Databases in SAP systems tend to grow rapidly. The SAP base constantly has to increase its memory, while performance 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 database.
It is important that these data remain evaluable even once they have been archived.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 KGS ContentServer4Storage solution, KGS provide the ideal archiving platform, which is perfectly adapted for the requirements of SAP and constitutes a very streamlined archiving system.
The structure and composition of the data is written in the SAP archiving objects. The data from the database can only be archived using these archiving objects.
The structure and composition of the data is written in the SAP archiving objects. The data from the database can only be archived using these archiving objects.
The archiving process is composed of three steps:
- Creation of archiving data
- Deletion of data sets from the database
- Filing of archiving data in the archive system (KGS ContentServer4Storage)
The archiving procedures are generally scheduled cyclically as background jobs and can even be run during online operation.
Unlike a conventional document archiving system, which can be set up within a few service days, data archiving is generally a more complex project. Alongside the IT department, a number of other departments must be closely involved in the project, as the choice of archiving objects is heavily dependent on requirements of these departments.
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