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slug: /manage/data-archiving
title: Data Archiving
description: Data Archiving allows you to archive selected data to an external server or Amazon S3.
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Archive allows you to forward log data from Installed Collectors to AWS S3 buckets to collect later. If you have logs that you do not need to search immediately, you can archive them for later use. You can also ingest them from your archive on-demand with five-minute granularity.  

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## Guide contents

In this section, we'll introduce the following concepts:

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        <h4>Archive Log Data to S3 using Installed Collectors</h4>
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      <p>Learn to archive data to S3 using Installed Collectors for future ingestion and retrieval.</p>
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        <h4>Archive Log Data to S3 using OpenTelemetry Collectors</h4>
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      <p>Learn to archive data to S3 using OpenTelemetry Collectors for future ingestion and retrieval.</p>
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