The Maintenance and Cleanup of Data process consists of the following sub process:
This sub process handles archiving of operational log history that is no longer needed for the daily work to be performed but still needs to be kept in the application for documentation purposes. The reason for why we recommend to archive historical loggings on a regular basis, is that the the amount of historical operational loggings can become very large. This again, can result in performance issues when entering operational loggings as well as other transactions which uses historical operational loggings in the application.
It is also possible to restore previously archived data. Restore of archived
data can typically be useful when something has incorrectly been archived, or
when an asynchronous transaction was forgotten prior to the previous archiving.
When a restore is performed, the archived data is moved back to the operational
logging history again.