The Archiver tool periodically selects the qualified process instances that are in completed or removed state from Business Process Server database and purges them. The archiver architecture supports backing up of qualified process instances to the file system. The file system may also be a shared file system to which the completed process instance data can be stored in XML format.
Figure 6. Archiver architecture
Archiver handles only runtime instance data. It does not handle any template data. The archiver tool performs following operations.
Data Extraction