About archiving

Archiving and deleting allow you to decommission an entire study, study project, or library project, including all of its study objects. The archiving functionality is not intended to be your only backup mechanism. You should also schedule regular database backups.

An archive contains the components that reconstruct a study, study project, or library project. All archives are saved on the database server, and you can copy them to another location and delete them from the database.

The archive process locks the study or project, but not the study objects in it. Therefore, Oracle recommends that you schedule archive processes for a time when no one is using the application.

Note: You cannot delete or archive the System Library or its project.