Strategies for Backing up and Restoring Oracle Analytics Cloud

When backing up and restoring Oracle Analytics Cloud content components, utilize bundles when feasible and handle the remaining settings through manual adjustments.

Oracle Analytics Cloud traditionally provides snapshots as a mechanism to backup artifacts. However, Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence doesn't have the ability to use the Oracle Analytics Cloud snapshots. Use bundles to backup Oracle Analytics Cloud artifacts and Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence customizations and configurations. For example, you can export an Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence environment bundle periodically (for example, weekly) to a resilient file store like Oracle Storage Service. When something goes wrong with one of your environments, you can import the bundle into another Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence environment and deploy it. See Bundle Your Application Artifacts.

When you restore the content, the system restores it to the point of backup. Any incremental content that you added between the backup and restore actions won't be available. If your instance has been upgraded after you've taken a backup and you restore on the upgraded instance, Oracle upgrades the platform to the new instance version before restoring the content. To restore your latest content, you must create a service request. Once you have restored a previous version of the content and completed the next pipeline run, create a service request for Oracle to update the content metadata to ensure the latest definitions of the objects are created. This enables future patching and upgrades to be performed on the restored snapshots.

Area	Artifact	Bundles	Manual	Backup and Restore Strategy
Reporting	Key metrics, Workbooks, Connections, and Analyses	Yes	No	Content and Environment bundle
Advanced modelling	Data flows, Functions, and Machine Learning applications	Yes	No	Environment bundle
Datasets	Datasets based on Connections (such as Databases, Object Storage, Essbase, REST Endpoints)	No	Yes	Export and Import Workbook (which includes the datasets reference). See Export a Visualization Import a Workbook File. Configure the connection configurations. See Create Datasets from Data Sources.
Datasets	Datasets based on file uploads (.XLSX, .XLS, Google Sheets, CSV, and TXT)	No	Yes	Export and Import Workbook (which includes the datasets reference). See Export a Visualization Import a Workbook File. Import the file into the dataset. See Create Datasets from Files.