Restore archived data

[Former Member]

Hi all, I am involved into an archiving scenario where milions of documents (sales docs/billing docs/accounting docs) are going to be archivied. Of course we are going to make full backup and, just in case of "disaster", we will do a "full restore".

Instead, if it will occur a problem (i.e. I archive documents that shouldn't be archived)  for only a little percentage of documents, I am wondering what is the best strategy to recover those documents.

I know that the restore of archived data is not recommended, but in this scenario I think it is the best way.

Do you have any advices?

Thank you in advance

[JL23]

You can only restore what is forseen to be restored.

for billing documents a program S3VBRKRL can restore archived documents. Read the docu in SE38 to this program.

in SARA transaction enter the archiving object, then select from menu GOTO,

in this menu is the restore function, if it is greyed then it is not forseen to be restored.

the docu per archving object in help.sap.com gives as well an indication if restoring is possible.

You should do a test run and then validate the selection log and error logs in the spool file to make sure that you have the right selection. you should as well validate directly after the archiving run is finished if everything went well. It is certainly easier to restore directly than 3 weeks or months later.