Database Archiving

Appendix B. Goals of a Database Archiving System

A robust database archiving system should have the ability to:

• Keep data for a very long period of time
• Support a very large volume of data
• Provide independence from operational application programs
• Allow independence from operational database systems
• Provide independence from operational computing systems
• Encapsulate sufficient metadata to explain data content
• Introduce minimal disruption of operational systems when performing extracts
• Implement a policy-based extraction criteria based on data values in the database
• Maintain full integrity in the extract process at all times
• Use a policy-based discard criteria based on data values in the archive
• Completely discard data from the archive
• Satisfy ...