Can BW drop and reload from archived COPA?

Hello Colleagues,

We are currently on ECC, but will be moving to S/4HANA in the next few years. This question applies to both.

We will be implementing COPA archiving. We have done a couple of BW drop-and-reloads for COPA. Once COPA is archived, how will a drop-and-reload work? Can it read from the archive?

Thanks.