Manage History Files

You can manage your history files by setting up the following jobs.

• Archive jobs enable you to move older data to a separate location or backup media.

• Purge jobs enable you to clean up the History database after an archive operation has run.

• Restore jobs enable you to restore the data that you have backed up.

Before you perform history archiving tasks, make sure that the SQLServerAgent service has been started on the History Server.

Note: The archiving operation may fail when the location of the dump file is set to the system root (that is, C:\), depending on the credentials assigned to the Microsoft SQL services in the History node.