Archiving the Audit Trail

To maintain the integrity and reliability of audit data, keep only minimal required audit data locally in the database.

Move audit data to a dedicated repository outside of the source database (such as Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) or Oracle Data Safe) for long-term audit data retention and detailed analysis.

Archiving the Traditional Operating System Audit Trail

You can create an archive of the traditional operating system audit files after you have upgraded Oracle Database.

To archive the traditional operating system audit trail from an upgraded database, use your platform-specific operating system tools to create an archive of the traditional operating system audit files.

Note: Traditional auditing is desupported in Oracle AI Database 26ai. Oracle recommends that you use unified auditing.

Use the following methods to archive the traditional operating system audit files:

Afterwards, you should purge (delete) the traditional operating system audit records to facilitate audit trail management.

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Archiving the Unified and Traditional Database Audit Trails

You should periodically archive and then purge the audit trail to prevent it from growing too large.

Archiving and purging facilitate the purging of the database audit trail.

You can create an archive of the unified and traditional database audit trail by using Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall or Oracle Data Safe. You install both of these products separately from Oracle AI Database.

Note: Traditional auditing is desupported in Oracle AI Database 26ai. Oracle recommends that you use unified auditing.

After you complete the archive, you can purge the database audit trail contents.

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