if you do it correctly, then you would not need to ask this question, as SAP takes care about this by itself.
SARA archiving has several steps, e.g. writing of an archive, deleting the archived data from the DB tables, and finally storing the data in a save place.
By standard SAP writes first to the file system, then you move this archive file to a content repository e.g. an optical disk system.
And in this step the archive file is MOVED, means it is gone from AL11.
and at the same time this content information (where it phyiscally is) is stored in the archive tables like ADMI_FILES and ADMI_RUN
And this info is needed to access the archive files for later analysis e.g. with SARI transaction.
