An archive database is a placeholder that is useful only once it has been loaded with a
database dump: the load process does not actually copy pages, however, it materializes the
database using page mapping.
Use the load database command to materialize an archive
database.
Note:
load database ... norecovery was introduced in SAP ASE version
12.5.4 and 15.0.2 for archive database access. You cannot use
norecovery on a traditional database. You do not need to have
Backup Server running when loading a database dump into an archive database.