Great article. I recently had to do this as there was an issue with VA 7.1 as noted in http://support.sas.com/kb/55/899.html

You mentioned that archiving of these audit records is configured by default and is set to run weekly. Is there any way to check that it is in fact configured? When I goto pgsql, the _archive tables are empty while the main tables have records all the way from February. I couldn't find any reference as to how one can verify whether default archiving is setup or not.

Thanks!