Archiving records

As the data grows in your system, your system performance might deteriorate. Archiving your data makes sure that the performance of your system is maintained. Archival moves your growing data into archive forms, freeing up space for new data. You can comply with record retention policies by using the Archiving feature available in BMC Helix ITSM.

The Archiving process helps you to achieve these goals:

  • Remove obsolete records from your production database by using a regular, controlled, and predictable process. 
  • Move qualified, transactional data records from the related production data forms, including certain associated forms to a set of corresponding archiving forms, all within the same database.

Archiving data regularly provides the following benefits: 

  • Reduces the size of your production data sets.
  • Improves overall system performance. For example, searches run more quickly, because they look only at production data and not at the archived data.
  • Enforces organizational data-retention policies.

Learn more about archiving in Archiving data and Configuring and managing the archiving process.

Related topics

BMC Helix ITSM data archiving policy

Troubleshooting-the-Archiving-process

Defining data associations among forms

 

Archiving implemented from AR System

Although the archiving process is available with the BMC Helix ITSM suite of applications and helps to support the goals of improving application performance, it is implemented at the platform level, through AR System. For information about how AR System implements the archiving process, see  Archiving data in the AR System online documentation.

Archiving architecture

The archiving process makes use of the form-level association management capabilities. By using association management, you can track and maintain the relationships among the BMC Helix ITSM application forms.

Association management in AR System

 For information about using associations, see Defining data associations among forms. 

 

 

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