An overview of the Archiving toolset

The Archiving toolset contains tools for managing geodatabase archiving. Archiving in ArcGIS provides the functionality to record and access changes made to data in a geodatabase. Geodatabase archiving is the mechanism for capturing, managing, and analyzing data change.

Organizations need to preserve the changes made to their data in order to answer common questions, such as:

• What was the value for a specific attribute at a certain moment?
• How has a particular feature or row changed through time?
• How has a spatial area evolved over time?

License:

The tools in the Archiving toolset require an ArcGIS for Desktop Standard or Advanced license.

Tool	Description
Disable Archiving	Disables archiving on a geodatabase feature class, table, or feature dataset.
Enable Archiving	Enables archiving on a table, feature layer, or feature dataset.

Tools in the Archiving toolset