Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Backup Exadata Database

Learn how to backup an Exadata Database using the Automatic Backup and Manual Backup (Standalone Backup) options .

  1. Automatic Backup
  2. Manual Backup (Standalone Backup)

Automatic Backup

Oracle recommends to use Oracle-managed automatic backup for your databases.

Oracle Database@AWS provides the following three (3) choices as the Backup destination for Oracle Exadata Database Service on Dedicated Infrastructure in the OCI console.
  1. Amazon S3 (Default)
  2. Autonomous Recovery Service (Recommended)
  3. Object Storage
To use the automatic backup option, you need to select one of the choices described above while creating an Exadata Database.
Note

Your Exadata Database Backup retention period and Backup schedule will vary based on the selected Backup destination.

Amazon S3

  1. Select Amazon S3 from the Backup destination list, enter your Backup retention period between 7 and 60 days.

    Oracle Database@AWS service maintains an encrypted copy of managed backup in OCI Object Storage for an additional layer of service resiliency.

  2. You can modify the retention period after the database has been provisioned.
  3. From the Scheduled day for full backup section, choose a day of the week for the initial and future LO backups to start.
  4. From the Scheduled time for full backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the full backups start.
  5. From the Scheduled time for incremental backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the incremental backup starts.
  6. If you want to take your first backup immediately after your Exadata Database is created, select the Take the first backup immediately button.

Autonomous Recovery Service

  1. Select Autonomous Recovery Service from the Backup destination list.
  2. Select your Compartment and Protection policy. The Protection policy list provides different protection policies with Backup retention period ranging from 14 to 95 days.
  3. You can modify the retention period after the database has been provisioned.
  4. From the Scheduled time for daily backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the daily backup starts.
  5. From the Scheduled time for incremental backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the incremental backups start.
  6. If you want to take your first backup immediately after your Exadata Database is created, select the Take the first backup immediately button.

Object Storage

  1. Select Object Storage from the Backup destination list.
  2. Enter your Backup retention period between 7 and 60 days. You can modify the retention period after the database has been provisioned.
  3. From the Scheduled time for daily backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the daily backup starts.
  4. From the Scheduled time for incremental backup (UTC) dropdown list, select the time window when the incremental backups start.
  5. If you want to take your first backup immediately after your Exadata Database is created, select the Take the first backup immediately button.

Automatic Backup from the OCI Console

  1. From the OCI console, you can navigate to Exadata VM Clusters, and then select Backups tab.
  2. From the Backups tab, you can view details of your backup such as State, Type, Backup destination, Encryption Key, Database version, Started and Ended.This screenshot shows the list of Automatic backups.

Manual Backup (Standalone Backup)

Learn how to create manual backup from the OCI console.

Standalone backups are Oracle Database backups stored in the same backup destination as the automatic backup destination selected during the Create Exadata Database step. Standalone backups are not subject to automatic backup retention policies. They are kept in the selected backup destination until you decide to delete them.

These are the steps to create a manual backup:
  1. From the OCI console, select Exadata VM Clusters and then select the Exadata VM Cluster that you are using.
  2. Select the Backups tab, and then select the Create Backup button.
  3. From the Create Backup page, complete the following substeps:
    1. Enter a Name for your backup.
    2. Select the Create button to complete the creation step.
    3. Return to the Backups tab within your Exadata VM Cluster to view the State of your backup. Once your backup is created, the state will change from Creating to Active.This screenshot shows the status of the manual backup which is in Backup in Progress.
    4. Alternatively, you can select Standalone backups from OCI console to view the State of your backup. This screenshot shows the standalone backups dashboard.