SAP Data Archiving

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm a newbie in SAP. I'm now assign to an SAP data archiving activity.

During this activity, I found that the largest volume are coming from archiving object FI_DOCUMNT. Is it true that basicly the archiving activity in any company start from this object first? Do I also need to archive FISL data?

And how to measure the successfull of this activity?

regards,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Yes basicly the largest volume of data object is FI_DOCUMNT. The logic behind is that the FI_DOCUMNT is created after transaction in the transaction system like SD and MM. In addition, FI will also be updated from its module posting, like updating for manual journal, revaluation activity, and many more.

FI_DOCUMNT is to be archive first because of 2 reason:

1. The data object is standing at the last data flow. As the SAP standard concept, you have to start the archiving at the very last of data object first.

2. FI_DOCUMNT representing the largest in terms of volume.

FISL data is basicly coming from FI_DOCUMNT. The FISL data is normally summarised in "T" table. But note that the "A" table is basicly very detail. Depending on the implementation strategy long years before, normally the volume of FISL and FI_DOCUMNT are the top 2 in volume.

Well, the succesful of the activity is usually measured by how many percentage you can reduce the "online" data compared to total data.

regards,

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Please remember to do all your DARTing requirements (for the given fiscal year) before you do any FI related archiving.