Managing Maintenance Snapshots

Maintenance snapshots are created primarily to restore your environment in the case of a catastrophic failure.

All files and snapshots that you create or upload to Cloud EPM and Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud environments are deleted after 60 days. A daily maintenance process monitors the environments and automatically removes snapshots older than 60 days. If the total size of the remaining snapshots exceeds 150 GB, it deletes snapshots created in the last 60 days but older than 48 hours, starting with the oldest, until the total size is below 150 GB. The daily maintenance snapshot is always retained, regardless of its size. If this maintenance snapshot exceeds 150 GB, only it will be retained; and all other snapshots will be deleted.

The daily snapshot is then archived with the retention policy described in Archival, Retention, and Retrieval of Daily Snapshots.

Exceptions

• Narrative Reporting retains only the current snapshot (EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz) of the environment.

  Thus, the 150 GB limit is not applicable to Narrative Reporting, but retention period for files and uploaded artifacts is enforced.

• Data Management process log files are retained for seven days only.