topic Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments in ArcGIS Pro Questions

Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

Pedro_DavidPereira — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:33:07 GMT

Hi,

I need to copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments atives from a GDB postgreSQL 10.23 ESRI geodatabase 10.7.1 to a GDB postgreSQL 14.9 ESRI geodatabase 11.2.

There is not a ArcToolbox for this win ArcGis Pro 3.2.2. The tool copy/paste doesn't copy the archiving just copy the atives objects and their respetive ative attachments.

Someone could help me? Someone know how to do this?

I need to export (or copy) a feature class and restore with the archiving enable...

Thanks.

Re: Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

Robert_LeClair — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:52:39 GMT

I wonder if a one-way geodatabase replica would copy the archive class and attachments from the parent geodatabase to the child geodatabase?

Re: Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

Pedro_DavidPereira — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:08:08 GMT

Hi,

I would like to know how i implement this one-way geodatabase replica? I couldn't export and restores the entire geodatabase.

I just need to export a feature class with archiving and attachments from a geodatabase to another. I must have in the child (new) geodatabase the samde feature class with the archiving and attachments atives.

If this is possible could you help me to do this?

Thanks.

Re: Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

Robert_LeClair — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:53:52 GMT

Hi Pedro - yes, I can assist you with this if you like. My email is rleclair at esri dot com - we can set up a Teams meeting to go over the workflow if you like. Let me know.

Re: Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

NicolasGIS — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 06:16:17 GMT

Hello @Pedro_DavidPereira and @Robert_LeClair ,

Did you manage to find a solution ? I am having the same requirement (backup both archiving and attachements) but can't find to do using ArcPy.

Thanks !

Re: Copy or export a feature class with archiving and attachments

Robert_LeClair — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:25:18 GMT

@NicolasGIS - I looked into this question again and tested on my parent enterprise geodatabases as well. When creating a one-way replica, the attachments do "copy" over to the child enterprise geodatabase just fine BUT the archive class does not. I verified this looking into PGAdmin at the gisowner scheme in the child enterprise geodatabase. I can see the tables for the attachments but not the _h table for the archive class.

Furthermore, there was an ENH-000134153 - Allow historical data to be copied along with archived feature class when moved between geodatabases created a while ago that's under Technical Review by the ArcGIS Pro Development Team. So no solution to my knowledge.