Planning for inactive data archiving

Data Protection for SAP creates a database image that is stored at the bit-level and can be used for routine backup operations.

To restore an outdated backup, you must restore it into the same environment it was originally taken from. This process requires you to maintain older versions of SAP, the operating system, database, and IBM Storage Protect™ data to enable a rebuild of the original environment. SAP provides archiving functions that can display business documents that are designated with long-term retention requirements. These business documents are format-independent and can be used for auditing and other legal purposes. Archived data can then be removed from the operational database to reduce the database size and improve backup and restore processing time.