Archiving the log

Log archiving transfers the audit log from disk to an archive tape or cartridge, so that auditing results can be kept for a longer period of time.

Archiving is usually scheduled explicitly, for example at the shutdown of DB2/VM. Implicit archiving is performed automatically when the audit log is full or when a user-defined number of audit requests have been stored.

Archiving does not disrupt audit logging: while archiving the log to tape, incoming audit request are temporarily stored on a secondary audit log.