You can restore data that you have archived to a database archive. When you restore data from a database archive, Data Archive performs the same steps in the same sequence as an archive cycle.
When you restore data from the database archive, the history application user functions like the production application user during an archive cycle. The history application user requires the SELECT ANY TABLE privilege to run a restore job.
You can conduct a full, cycle, or transaction restore from a database archive. If you are restoring data from a database archive that was previously restored from the Data Vault to a database archive, you can only run a cycle restore. You can only run a cycle restore because the restore job ID is not populated in the interim tables during the initial archive cycle.
The target database for a database archive restore job can be either an empty or existing production database.
When you run a full restore, the system validates that the source and target connections point to different databases. If you use the same database for the source and target connections, the source data may be deleted.