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title: "Archive"
slug: "archive"
abstract: "Introduction to archiving."
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# Archive

Archival is part of the asset life cycle. When an asset becomes obsolete, after the end of a marketing campaign for example, you can [archive](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/archive-assets.html "Archive assets") it. Archiving keeps your asset repository in order, while retaining the affected assets for future use and analysis. You can easily [restore](https://doc.sitecore.com/ch/en/users/content-hub/restore-archived-assets.html "Restore archived assets") archived assets if you need to.