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SARA

Former Member — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:16:12 GMT

Hi ,

whats use of SARA ?

and what is mean by Archive is SAP ?

Point is asurd

Re: SARA

dhruv_shah3 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:20:56 GMT

Hi,

please have a look at note 35992.

Apart form Note have a look on link.

[http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/8d/3e4ec2462a11d189000000e8323d3a/content.htm]

You can get more information from SAP help- data archiving section.

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HTH

Regards,

Dhruv Shah

Re: SARA

Former Member — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:24:23 GMT

Hi,

Archiving is the term or process which removes the old data from your SAP R/3 system and stores the same data on some other storage system such IXOS.

An Archiving object is the collection of tables of a particular SAP module.

For example, FI Team, we have one archiving object called FI_DOCUMNT which contains all the tables related to this team and when we do archive this object, that means it will archive all the data from different tables related to FI team.

There are a lots to learn about SAP data archiving...you can either learn online or go through the book called "Archiving your SAP data" ..this is good for beginners.

SARA is the only transaction that will help you to launch the archive jobs in background for a particular archiving object.

This is nothing but Archive administration where you do the customizing, see the stastics, database tables, information etc etc of a particular archiving object.

I've answered your questions.

Please reward points if it sounds helpful for you.

Thanks,

Shamim

Re: SARA

Former Member — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:32:00 GMT

Hi,

for archivng data.

1. Analyse data growth of system..t-code :DBO2/SE16

2. Find the maximum size and growth tables

3. find the relevent archiving objects : DB15

4. Decide on residence and retention period of data,hardware-storage location etc

5. customize archiving objects: t-code: SARA

6. Schedule archive job and monitor: SARA/SM37

7. Retrieve if required by SARA/SARI/ALO1 etc

Let me know any specific question ,if you have

Thanks,

Eswar