Banks commonly store images of financial documents in database servers such as DB2, Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server for their applications. The tremendous size of these images over time can quickly bloat even the fastest databases. This can degrade performance for many applications but regulatory rules require that these documents be preserved for future review, reference, and auditing preventing the possibility of simply purging these documents. A major bank needed to create a system which can archive the variety of documents and images for checks, bills, loans, and other financial instruments into a common system. The image archiving system provides a system which automates the tedious task of regularly updating and maintaining their image archive. The archive maintains a schedule for the images to be archived from the source database and then provides a link back to the archived image. The automation of the storage provides for a hierarchical access to the images based on a Mobius image server. All the functions for this system including security, scheduling, maintenance, and retrieval to the image archive system is provided through an easy to use web interface.