In long-term archiving, you archive events either from the production database to the file archive or from the history database to the file archive. The production database contains Data Exchange document store. The history database contains the archived events and documents in an intermediate repository. The file archive is an optimized file store that contains the archived events and documents to which you can access only from Data Archive or with external viewing tools.

You define the source connection properties for either the production database or the history database, and the target connection properties for the file archive. You set up the file archive user access role and assign the role to users that can access the file archive. You add the users to a security group.

Before you create the archive project and run the archive job, you run a standalone archive to create the file archive folder. After you run the archive job, you view the archived events in the

Data Discovery

portal in Data Archive. You browse for events in the file archive on the

Browse Data

page. Browse for events if you have sufficient information about the event itself, such as the status or the processing start time. You search for events in the file archive with the

Search File Archive

page. Search for events to find events based on associated metadata, such as the related partner or account.