To retire attachments from SAP applications, you must have staging space in a file system that is accessible to the SAP system. The staging space requirements depend on the amount and size of the BCP files and attachments you plan to retire in the retirement project.

Verify that the staging space is at least four times larger than the size of the data that you plan to retire in a single retirement project.

By default, the retirement job saves the BCP files that it creates for the cluster and pool tables, to the staging space. The retirement job also downloads all attachments that are stored in the SAP database and in a file system to the staging space. For attachments that are stored in the SAP database, the job compresses and downloads the attachments to this staging space. For attachments that are stored in a file system, the job moves the attachments to the staging space.

You can leave the BCP files and attachments in the staging space. Or, you can move the BCP files attachments from the staging space to another file system, external storage, or the Data Vault. Optionally, you can configure the attachment entities to keep the attachments in the file system if you do not want to move attachments from the original file system to the staging space.