Basic archive process
- Last Updated: February 11, 2026
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Basic archive process
The most basic archive process is to archive and delete all the audit data from your production database and load the data into your archive database. If your production database is called prod-db, and your archive is arch-db, these are the basic steps:
- Archive the data:
proutil prod-db -C auditarchiveThis command archives all the audit data currently in prod-db to your current working directory, and deletes all the audit data from prod-db. The audit archive file is named prod-db.abd.
- Load the data:
proutil arch-db -C auditload /usr1/prod-db-dir/prod-db.abdThis command loads all the audit data in the archive file /usr1/prod-db-dir/prod-db.abd into the arch-db database.