Schedule Regular Snapshots (Backups)

You must take snapshots regularly as part of your organization's business continuity plan to minimize data loss. If something goes wrong with your content or service, you can revert to the user content that you recently saved in a snapshot. For example, user content such as reports, dashboards, data visualization workbooks, pixel-perfect reports, datasets, data flows, semantic models, security roles, system settings, and so on.

Back Up Frequently

Oracle recommends that you take snapshots at significant checkpoints, for example, before you make a major change to your content or environment. In addition, Oracle recommends that you take regular weekly snapshots or at your own defined frequency based on the rate of change of your environment and rollback requirements. You can keep up to 40 snapshots online and export as many as you want to offline storage (that is, to your local file system or to your own Oracle Cloud storage). See Take a Snapshot and Export Snapshots.

Store Backups on Oracle Cloud

Oracle recommends that you adopt a regular practice of exporting snapshots to offline storage. If you regularly export large snapshots (over 5GB or larger than the download limit of your browser), Oracle recommends that you set up a storage bucket on Oracle Cloud and save your snapshots to cloud storage. This way, you can avoid export errors due to size limitations and timeouts that can sometimes occur when you export snapshots to your local file system. See Set Up an Oracle Cloud Storage Bucket for Snapshots.

Automate Backups using REST APIs

Use REST APIs to programmatically create, restore, and manage your snapshots in Oracle Cloud storage. For example, might create a script that takes regular backups (snapshots). See Manage Snapshots Using REST APIs.

Disaster Recovery

If an unforeseen disaster happens, a well-architected business continuity plan will enable you to recover as quickly as possible and continue to provide services to your Oracle Analytics Cloud users. Taking regular snapshots is one of the ways you can help minimize disruption for users.

You can also deploy a passive backup Oracle Analytics Cloud environment in a different region to mitigate the risk of region-wide events. For more information and best practices, see Disaster Recovery Configuration for Oracle Analytics Cloud.