Archive a project in Azure DevOps

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The answer, technically, is that no out-of-box solution exists for archiving (or even doing on-demand backups for that matter) of your ADO Service data. If you're using ADO Server then you have the power to do whatever you want. As the goal, in your case, is to hide older data, however, the answer begs a few questions: (1) what data do you need to keep (2) how are your teams structured, (3) what repos are you using, and (4) how often does the process need to run? Keep in mind, Microsoft's written guidance is to create a single Team Project per business unit, organization with some exceptions (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/organizations/projects/about-projects?view=azure-devops) Therefore, a simple answer may be to create a separate Team Project for archiving and move all repos to that project through the use of automation or manually (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/repos/git/import-git-repository?view=azure-devops). Our organization? We don't care much about the Work Item history so we grab the data and store it in Azure files once it becomes no longer necessary. There is a User Voice around backups but it doesn't have a lot of traffic. (https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/idea/365441/provide-a-backup-service-for-visual-studio-team-se.html)