Data Archiving (ADK/SARA)

When configuring the delete step, what is the difference between delete after closing the archive file and delete after transfer to the storage system, and which is safer?

You want CCMS alerting and an access check to apply to every archiving object at once rather than object by object. Which Customizing area sets that, and what does it control?

A write run for a massive object must not spill past the nightly window. How do you make it stop cleanly and resume later without losing what it already wrote?

Reads and access checks against archived data are suddenly very slow once an external storage system is involved. Which two Customizing settings cause the long response times?

Before the first production delete run, how do you prove the delete program selects the right data without actually removing anything, and where is that set?

You need to map the logical name ARCHIVE_DATA_FILE to a physical path. When do you use transaction FILE versus SF01?

A write job dies halfway through a run. What is the correct recovery sequence, and what must you do with the half-written file?

A colleague says archiving is full because the redo logs stopped; another means the scanned invoices. In SAP, what three different things can archiving refer to, and which one does a SARA data-archiving project mean?

You have archive files created years ago on a non-Unicode system and now run a Unicode system. Must you convert the old archive files before you can read them?

The business fears that archiving a huge FI table needs system downtime. Is that true, and what does it change about how you schedule the run?

Beyond retention rules, what does SAP Information Lifecycle Management offer that plain data archiving cannot when you want to switch off an entire legacy SAP system?

SARA Customizing is split into parts. What are the four areas, and which one is the system administrator NOT responsible for?

A delete run terminates and you can no longer read the archive files it was processing. Can you still finish, and what actually gets deleted from the database?

You try to reach AOBJ or TAANA from the SAP Easy Access menu and can't find them. Is something wrong with your role?

Legal asks to see archived FI documents. Do you reload them into the database first, and how do you actually read archived data?

What actually makes archived data searchable in the Archive Information System, and what has to exist before a search returns anything?

To research archived data you can use SARI or the Document Relationship Browser (ALO1). What does each answer, and when do you pick ALO1?

During a write run one archive file shows status Created while others show Active. What does that mean for whether you can start deleting?

What is the central archiving transaction, and what actions does it offer per archiving object?

Files are written and need to reach external storage. When do you route them through ArchiveLink/CMS, and when must you NOT?

What breaks if an operator starts the delete step before the write file is verified, and why is delete a separate job from write?

What does data archiving trade off (it isn't deletion), and what media choice does unchangeable legal retention force?

FI documents already have a delivered archiving object (FI_DOCUMNT over BKPF/BSEG/BSET, read via FB03). So when do you actually go to AOBJ?

A Basis admin is asked to archive last year's FI documents to free up space. They know SARA cold. Why must they NOT decide the scope themselves?

You want to free space in a specific huge table but don't know which archiving object handles it. Which transaction answers that, and what exactly does it tell you?

Management expects ~5x DB savings from archiving your cluster-table-heavy tables. Why is that estimate likely to disappoint, and what are the three steps that actually produce the saving?

Beyond write and delete, which step of a full archiving run is easy to skip but silently makes the run free no space, and what runs them all?

A user wants archived data from last quarter put back into the database after a recent upgrade. Why should you refuse to reload it, and when IS reload actually safe?

A compliance rule requires documents from one company code to land on different storage than another's. What feature handles this, and what is the prerequisite it depends on?

An archiving run for material master (MM_MATNR) keeps leaving records behind or erroring on dependencies. What is the root cause and how do you find the correct fix?

Why can't you archive just the biggest individual table in a business document, and what is the unit you must use instead?

When does a single archiving run roll over to a new physical file, and what is the default ceiling if you set no size?

Legal needs guaranteed retention periods, litigation legal hold, and provable end-of-life destruction. Why is classic SARA/ADK not enough, and what closes the gap?

Engineers often call the ADK "where archived data is stored." Why is that wrong, and what does ADK actually do?

To estimate how much space archiving will actually free, do you trust Online Space or Space Statistics — and why does the difference bite you?

Before archiving, you want to know how table entries are distributed (e.g. by year/company code) to pick a good selection. Which tool, and how does it differ from SARI?

After an archiving run, how do you confirm how much data was actually deleted from the database, and since which release is that available?