How Backups Are Initiated

Backups are initiated in several different ways.

• Oracle SOA Cloud Service initiates scheduled automated backups on the following default schedule:

  • Full backups are initiated weekly starting 12 hours after a service instance was created, rounded to the nearest five-minute interval.

    For example, if a service instance is created at 1:01 PM on a Monday, full backups are initiated at 1:00 AM on Tuesdays.

  • Incremental backups are initiated every day except the day of a full backup at the same time that full backups are initiated.

    For example, if a service instance is created at 1:01 PM on a Monday, incremental backups are initiated at 1:00 AM every day except Tuesdays.

  You can change the schedule on which automated backups are initiated as explained in Configure Automated Backups for an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance.

  Note:

  You cannot configure how often backups are performed, only when they are performed.

• You can initiate a backup immediately without having to wait for the next scheduled backup as explained in Initiate an On-Demand Backup of an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance.

• Oracle SOA Cloud Service initiates a full backup immediately before an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance is patched.

• Oracle SOA Cloud Service initiates an incremental backup immediately before an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance is scaled in or scaled out.