Create a Long-Term Backup

In addition to automatic backups, Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure also allows you to take manual backups that can be retained for a minimum of 90 days and a maximum of 10 years.

Note:

Long-term backups are not available with Autonomous Database for Developers instances. See Autonomous Database for Developers for more details. Additionally, long-term backups are not available unless automatic backups are enabled for the parent ACD.

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Procedure

You can create a long-term backup from the Details page of an Autonomous Database.

Required IAM Policies

Oracle Public Cloud Deployments:
  • read autonomous-databases
  • manage autonomous-backups
Exadata Cloud@Customer Deployments:
  • read autonomous-databases
  • manage autonomous-backups
  • inspect backup-destinations

Steps

  1. Go to the Details page of the Autonomous Database for which you want to create a long-term backup.

    For instructions, see View Details of an Autonomous Database on Dedicated Exadata Infrastructure.

    Note:

    In an Autonomous Data Guard setup, you can initiate a long-term backup from the primary or standby database. However, the long-term backup is created only where it is initiated. Suppose you want long-term backups for both the primary and standby databases. In that case, you have to initiate two long-term backups, one from the primary and the other from the standby database. However, the long-term backups created in either a primary or a standby database will be visible in all Autonomous Data Guard regions.
  2. Click Backups. The list of backups is displayed.
  3. Click Create long-term backup.
  4. Provide the following details in the Create long-term backup dialog:
    Setting Description Notes
    Name A user-friendly description or other information that helps you easily identify the backup.

    Must be 1 to 30 characters, of letters, numbers, underscores (_) and hyphens (-).

    Must start with a letter or underscore(_), cannot contain two successive hyphens(--) or cannot end with a hyphen(-).
    Backup Destination

    Backup destination type: This is defaulted to Network File System (NFS) and can not be modified.

    Backup destination: Select a backup destination from the list of backup destinations, changing compartments if necessary.

    		APPLIES TO: Applicable Exadata Cloud@Customer only

    Irrespective of the parent container database's backup destination type, your long-term backup's destination remains NFS.

    To learn more about configuring NFS backup destination for Cloud@Customer, see Prerequisites for Backup Destinations for Exadata Database Service on Cloud@Customer

    If you choose NFS as a backup destination type while creating a long-term backup, then you have to manually delete the backups after they expire if the corresponding ACD is already terminated. See Backup Retention Policy for more details.

    Retention Lock

    Displays if the retention lock has been enabled for the parent ACD.

    The values are:
    • Yes - The retention lock is enabled for the parent ACD
    • No - The retention lock is not enabled for the parent ACD

    APPLIES TO: Applicable Oracle Public Cloud

    APPLIES TO: Applicable Exadata Cloud@Customer

    The retention lock setting is inherited from the parent ACD and cannot be edited or changed. If the retention lock is enabled for the parent ACD, then the long-term backups cannot be deleted until the end of their retention period.
    Retention Period Set the retention period for the long-term backup. The minimum allowed value for retention period is 90 days and the maximum 10 years.
  5. Click Create.

    Note:

    While backing up a database, the database is fully functional; however during the backup, life cycle management operations are not allowed. For example, stopping the database is not allowed during the backup.

    You can see all the long-term backups of an Autonomous Database under Autonomous standalone backups on the OCI console.