Data Archiving

What is the Archive Development Kit (ADK), and what does it already give you out of the box?

A delete run partially failed and you must re-process what was written. Why can't you act on individual archive files, and what is the unit you address instead?

Users expect an application transaction to transparently show archived data alongside live data. What must be in place, or the archived rows simply won't appear?

ADK offers sequential access and direct access (via an index table) to archived data. When is direct access the wrong default, and why?

You can delete after writing or delete in parallel with writing. Parallel is faster — so when would you deliberately choose delete-after-writing instead?

An archiving session was created without descriptive notes (org unit, document number ranges, fiscal year). What problem surfaces only later, and where can it still be fixed?

You archived data months ago but SARI can't find it. What single step, performed during the delete run, determines whether SARI can ever reach that data?

Why must every physical archive file name include reserved words like <DATE> and <TIME>, and what goes wrong if you omit them?

You're choosing an external archive system to plug into SAP via ArchiveLink. What hard requirement disqualifies an otherwise-capable system?

In the three-step archiving process, why does the write program deliberately NOT delete records, and what guarantees data is safe before deletion?

Among the four storage locations for archived data, which is explicitly not advisable, and what's the reasoning?

A colleague says 'we archive nightly, so we're covered if the system fails.' Why is that dangerous, and how do archiving, reorganization, and backup actually differ?

A team wants to archive an open, still-running business process to free up space. Why is this wrong, and what is the actual qualifying criterion?

Before letting the write action commit archive files in production, what should you have already done with its selection variant — and what is the costly mistake?

The business asks 'where is all our space going inside table X — which org units or document types?' before committing to an archiving strategy. Which transaction answers that, and how?

You need to customize an archive info structure in SARJ. What must you NOT do to the SAP-shipped standard structure, and why?

In SARI status management an info structure shows yellow. What does that actually mean, and is it a problem to fix?

Why can't you safely archive a sales document by archiving its header table alone, and what does the archiving object guarantee instead?

Given direct access and read programs already exist, when is Archive Explorer (SARE) actually the right tool to reach for?

An archiving run completes but removes almost nothing, even though the tables are huge. What do you check in the SARA Network Graphic first?

How are print lists archived and retrieved (transactions and object/document types)?

Why have classic read programs become the fallback rather than the normal way to view archived data?

SARA Statistics report DB Space (Write) of about 100 GB to create the archive files. Will that mean about 100 GB sitting in storage, and what does the 80% figure actually describe?

You want to free space in one big table but aren't sure which archiving object handles it. What does DB15 tell you that a one-to-one assumption would miss?

You sort by the largest tables in DBACOCKPIT and the top entries are logging/tracing tables. Should you build an archiving object run for them?

A user wants to trace how an archived invoice connects to still-live follow-on documents. Which tool, and what's the prerequisite that catches people out?

A document is completed and has reached its retention time, yet preprocessing still won't let you archive it. What third condition is failing?

You create a content repository in OAC0, set its Storage Type and Document Area, but communication still doesn't work. Which step was skipped?

Without archive routing, where do all of an object's archive files go, and what specific problem does routing solve?

Of the three StorageSyst step actions, the most secure is also the slowest. When is paying that throughput cost actually justified?

A user asks you to reload data archived 18 months ago because they 'need it back live.' Why is this risky, and when is reloading actually acceptable?

Of the three ways to schedule the delete job, which minimizes end-user impact, and why isn't 'start automatically after write' the default answer?

In SARA you enter an archiving object and several expected functions are greyed out / missing. Bug, or by design?

Where is an archiving object defined, and what does it contain that a content repository definition never does?

Before starting a risky SUM upgrade you want to snap a tenant database's current state in seconds so you can jump back if it fails. Which SAP HANA Cockpit feature does this, and why can it not replace a real backup?