Archiving data from central managers

You can archive the audit data that is captured by your Guardium® system to another location. These archived files can be restored later for forensic purposes without replacing the audit data that is already available in your Guardium system. Use the following procedure to archive data on your central manager.

1. Go to Manage > Data Management > Data Archive.
2. Select the Archive checkbox.
3. In the Archive data older than field, enter a value and select a unit of time from the menu.
   For example, to archive data from yesterday, enter the value 1, and select Day(s) from the menu.
   Tip: If you archive data on a schedule, check your archive log by accessing Manage > Reports > Data Management > Aggregation/Archive Log to ensure that there are no data gaps in your archive.
4. In the Ignore data older than field, enter the time interval to archive.
   For example, to archive one day's data, enter 2. Any value that is specified here must be greater than the Archive data older than value. If you leave this field blank, you archive data for all days older than the value specified in Archive data older than.
5. Select the Archive Values checkbox to include values from SQL strings in the archived data. If this option is not selected, the values are replaced with question mark characters and are not available after the restore operation.
6. Select the Protocol that you want to use to store your archive and enter the configuration details.
7. Click Test connection The system verifies the configuration by sending a test data file to the configured location. If the operation fails, an error message is displayed.
8. Click Save to save the configuration changes. If the operation fails, an error message is displayed and the configuration is not saved.
9. Click Run Once Now to run the operation now.