IDocs archiving - legal requirement?

Hi everyone,
I am quite well aware of everything concerning archiving but lately a legal point has been raised within my company which is to know if we must keep or not the iDocs we archived. If yes how long?
We do archive and retain documents such as invoices, sales orders, financial docs etc.. as long as it is specified by the most restrictive law of the country where our business is present. Right now we are also archiving all our iDocs after a couple of months and we keep them in retention for 10 years, however this has a cost because it needs a huge amount of disk space. We are wondering if this is necessary from a legal point of view (especially for the iDocs concerning invoices) since the iDocs are not the document themselves but could be needed to retrace the workflow of a specific document.
Hope my explanations were clear enough
Thank you for any clarification on the topic

Hi Sreeny,
Thank you for your reply. This specific Requirement to ARgentina will maybe developed for us, since we have no way to assure the solution by keeping the standards tools. Thank you for your cooperation.
note: in the past, about 5 years ago, it was possible to download prin documents as you´ve sent me. Do you know is this document is still available in the web? (print files, print document).
Best regards,
Lucia

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