The archiving strategy determines the time intervals in which database mechanisms save actions to the database. This determines whether the database system can recover lost data.

Two options are available: Either the archiving mode is on during the update, or archiving is deactivated at the beginning of the downtime.

The upgrade strategy you decided for or other previous decisions may indicate that you intend to deactivate archiving during downtime. In this case you are prompted to deactivate archiving at the beginning of the downtime. You are prompted again at the end of the downtime to activate archiving.