| # Creating an Archive Company Number of archive companies When you set up an archive company, various concepts and strategies are involved. You can have one archive company, which will be fed with data yearly, that is, the operational company will archive its data each year to the same archive company. Therefore, all data will be centrally stored. However, this concept has one major drawback: performance degradation. Due to the transfer of large amounts of data from the operational company to the archive company, over time, the archive company grows larger than the operational company. Therefore, you must make enough disk space available, which, in turn, significantly decreases the performance of the archive company as more data is archived. The second concept of setting up an archive company implies the data of the operational company will be archived each year to a new archive company. Having one archive company for each archiving period limits the size of the archive company, which, in turn, stabilizes the performance to access this data. You can easily store this archive company onto an external device for a longer period of time. At the end of the archiving cycle the data will be cleared. With one archive company for each year, you can easily drop the entire company at once, whereas filtering the old data that can be removed from one large archive involves more investigation and takes more time. Another point worth considering setting up the archive company is the strategy towards migration. If the operational company will be migrated in the future, the archive company must also be migrated. With this strategy, it is easier to migrate multiple smaller companies than one large archive company. When you archive in LN, you must keep close watch on the company numbers (operational – archive). Note The subsequent procedure for creating an archive company is valid for a standard, non-localized and non-customized ERP environment. In the examples used throughout this document, companies 001 and 002 are operational companies; companies 901 and 902 are archive companies. To perform the steps to create an archive company, you must be super user. Creating an archive company – overview |