1. Administering Oracle SOA Cloud Service
  2. Administer Oracle SOA Cloud Service
  3. Perform Lifecycle Operations on an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance
  4. Back Up and Restore an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance
  5. About Backup and Restoration of Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instances
  6. What Happens During a Backup

What Happens During a Backup

During a backup of an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance, the service instance continues to run and all applications deployed to the service instance remain available.

To prevent configuration changes during a backup, Oracle SOA Cloud Service locks the Oracle WebLogic Server domain. After locking the domain, Oracle SOA Cloud Service backs up files on each node as described in Contents of a Backup .

Note:

Do not to attempt to start the administration server while a backup is in progress.

While the backup is in progress, you cannot start any other management operation on the service instance.

When the backup is complete, Oracle SOA Cloud Service unlocks the Oracle WebLogic Server domain. If the backup is a scheduled backup, Oracle SOA Cloud Service also cleans up aged backups as follows:

  • It deletes from local storage all backups old enough to be stored only in the Oracle Cloud Storage Service container.

  • It deletes from wherever they are stored any remaining copies of backups whose retention period has elapsed.

If the scheduled backup fails because of insufficient space, the aged backups are still cleaned up.

To back up the database, Oracle SOA Cloud Service uses Recovery Manager (RMAN). The backup of the database is coordinated with the backup of other volumes.

Note:

Oracle SOA Cloud Service does not automatically remove transaction records when backing up a service instance. Therefore, you must remove transaction records after you restore a service instance from a backup.