How to Archive a list in sharepoint 2010

Hi
I think large list is the inevitable trend and will be a very common issue faced by everyone. We are a medium business using sharepoint 2010.
For past 3 years, one of our SharePoint lists is over 20000 items.
From my end:
1. I have indexed some important columns and created filtered views but it does not help much.
2. I have increased the list threshold value to 25000( Even though the best practice is 5000).
3. Also, I have set the list template size to 500MB
4. When I try to save the list as a template, SharePoint throws an exception error.
5. I tried working on the code
mentioned in the link
below but it looks complicated for me.
http://spboom.com/sharepoint-development/moving-sharepoint-list-items-to-archive-list/
What I need:
I need to archive old items in the list. After archiving, I might need to refer to the archived items from time to time.
As I'm newbie to SharePoint, it would be great, if someone can elaborate in detail with what can be done.
Again your help in this is much appreciated.
Thanks & Regards,
SweR

What vesion of SharePoint are you using? If you want to move items across from one list to another (as per your prefered option), something like: -
Create a list template of you list with no content
Recreate it on the same level as the main lis
Create an SPD workflowthat'll copy an item to the new list and delete the original. Make sure it doesn't have a triggering action
Use an Expiration Information Rights Policy to triger the workflow.
Please note that this won't preserve the original author / create metadata as Alex has already said.
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