Backup Data Residency and Retention

Every day, during the operational maintenance of the environment, Oracle backs up the content of the environment to create an Environment Backup and a maintenance snapshot, named Artifact Snapshot, of existing artifacts and data.

These backups can be used to recover artifacts and data and to restore the environment to the state it was in during the last operational maintenance. For detailed information on the Environment Backup, maintenance snapshot, and their retention policy, see Overview of Daily Backups.

Daily backups for test and production environments are archived to Oracle Object Storage and are retained for 60 days. This satisfies your backup and archive requirements.

The daily backups from the Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management and Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Data Management environments are archived to Oracle Object Storage within the same OCI region as the environment. This satisfies the requirement that the data on the Cloud EPM and Cloud EDM environments does not leave the region.

Note:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is hosted in regions and availability domains. A region is a localized geographic area, and an availability domain is one or more data centers located within a region. A region is composed of one or more availability domains. For the availability domains of different OCI regions, refer to Regions and Availability Domains.

Oracle Object Storage is designed to be highly durable, providing 99.999999999% (Eleven 9s) of annual durability. It achieves this by storing each object redundantly across three different availability domains for regions with multiple availability domains, and across three different fault domains in regions with a single availability domain. Data integrity is actively monitored using checksums, and corrupt data is detected and automatically repaired. Any loss in data redundancy is detected and remedied, without customer intervention or impact.

If you have a requirement to archive backups to another region and/or for longer duration, you can use self-service automation scripts to replicate the maintenance snapshots to other OCI regions and/or archive them for longer duration.

Sample scripts for backing up snapshots are available in Working with EPM Automate for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud: