Create an On-Demand Backup in Database Cloud Service

Before You Begin

This tutorial shows you how to create an on-demand backup in Oracle Database Cloud Service. This tutorial takes approximately 10 minutes to complete.

Background

By backing up your Database Cloud Service database deployment, you can protect the deployments' software, configuration and database against loss if a failure occurs. By restoring a deployment from a backup, you can restore the deployment's software, configuration, and database to their state at the time of the backup.

Database Cloud Service provides a backup feature that backs up the database, database configuration files, and important system files. To provide this backup feature, Database Cloud Service relies on system utilities and on Oracle Database Backup Service, which is installed on the instance's compute node.

What Do You Need?

• You need a database deployment that is configured for backups to Cloud Storage.

Access the Oracle Database Cloud Service Console

1. Sign in to Oracle Cloud.
2. Click Database.
3. On the Service Details:Oracle Database Cloud Service page, click Open Service Console.

   

Create an On-Demand Backup

1. Click the database deployment link for which you want to create a backup.

   

2. The Oracle Database Cloud Service Overview page is displayed. Click the Administration tile.

   

3. The Oracle Database Cloud Service Backup page is displayed. Click Backup Now.

   

4. Click Backup in the Backup Now window to confirm that you want to create an on-demand backup at this time.
5. A confirmation message is displayed and the in-progress backup is shown in the Available Backups list. Notice that there is no tag associated with the backup at this point.

   

6. You can refresh the page until you see that the backup has completed. Note that there is now a tag listed with the backup.

   

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