You cannot upgrade an archive database. If you load a database dump from an older version of Adaptive Server onto an archive database hosted on a newer version of Adaptive Server, the database is not internally upgraded when you execute online database.
If you upgrade an Adaptive Server containing an archive database, all the databases except the archive databases are upgraded. The archive database remains on the older version of Adaptive Server.
SAP recommends you reload the archive database with a dump generated from an already upgraded database.
For more information about upgrading Adaptive Server, see the installation guide for your platform.