Archiving/Purging BP/Data in GIS

I would recommend everyone on your team review the Archiving and Purging documentation (you will have to login to the new Sterling Commerce Support website to view the .pdf) from Sterling Commerce to get a thorough understanding of the process. I will provide some basic information to help you determine your best practices for this process.


Basic Terminology

Archived: The business process and related data is archived to a backup location of your choosing on the File System.

Purged: The business process and related data is purged from the Active database and is not available for restore.

The Backup Business Process service retains the business process and its related data to a file system as Java™ serialized objects for later backup to tape, some other long-term storage medium, or purging. The Purge service then runs and removes any data from the database or file system, or both, specified in archive settings not to retain.

The screenshot above shows where you can specifically set a BP to override the System Default settings for the Archive/Purge. The setting above can be tailored per BP to either Archive or Purge the BP after it has met it’s expiration period and been marked by the Index process for Archiving/Purging.

The data associated to this BP is not affected by the Process Specific setting in the BP editor. The data will still be available for searching based on the settings in the Archive Manager setup. Once the Data has met its expiration time, the Data as well as the Correlation information will be Archived or Purged depending on the System settings.

For example, if you set the BP Archive/Purge to 2 Days 0 Hours and the Trackable BP information (data) to 2 Days 0 Hours, then the data will be available for 2 + 2 Days = 4 Days.

The Backup Directory is the location of the Archived BP and BP Data on the File System. This Archive file on the File System can then be used to Restore from if you need to research a BP or BP Data that has already been Archived. Simply follow the Restore steps in the Archiving and Purging documentation.