Backup Data Residency and Retention on OCI (Gen 2)
Every day, during the operational maintenance of the environment, Oracle backs up the content of the environment to create a maintenance snapshot, named Artifact Snapshot, of existing artifacts and data. The maintenance snapshot 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 maintenance snapshot and retention policy, see Overview of the Maintenance Snapshot.
In OCI (Gen 2) environments, daily snapshots are archived to Oracle Object Storage. Production environment snapshots are retained for 60 days while test environment snapshots are retained for 30 days. This satisfies your backup and archive requirements.
The daily snapshots from an Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud environment are archived to Oracle Object Storage in the same OCI region as the environment. This satisfies the requirement that the data on an EPM Cloud environment 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 backups 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 :
- See Back up Application Snapshot to a Computer for a sample script for downloading daily snapshots and storing them in an on-premise storage.
- See Copying a Snapshot to or from Oracle Object Storage for a sample script for archiving daily snapshots in Oracle Object Storage.