1. Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators
  2. Backing Up and Restoring an Environment Using the Maintenance Snapshot
  3. For Services Other Than Narrative Reporting
  4. Importing Snapshot to Restore Environment

Importing Snapshot to Restore Environment

You can restore application artifacts and data from previous snapshots. For example, you can restore the artifacts and data to the state they were in a few days ago by importing a snapshot that you backed up to a local machine.

Before importing, you should upload the source snapshot to the Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud environment. Snapshots that you create or upload to the service are stored for 60 days, after which they are automatically deleted. See these sources for information on uploading snapshots to an environment:

Key Considerations

  • Oracle Enterprise Data Management Cloud and Narrative Reporting do not support the migration of snapshots from a monthly update to a previous monthly update (for example, when moving snapshots between test and production environments during the window when the test environment is upgraded before the production environment). It supports migration only across the same monthly update or to the next monthly update.
  • Account Reconciliation supports the migration of individual artifacts to a previous monthly update, except for the Application Snapshot artifact.
  • All other business processes support the migration of snapshots from a monthly update to the previous and next monthly updates.

  • Import operation may fail if Planning contains a renamed seeded period member that has been supplanted by a custom period member. For example, you renamed the seeded YearTotal Period member to unused_YearTotal and then added an alternate type period member with the original seeded member name (YearTotal in this example). In this scenario, import of snapshot into the business process may fail.

Note:

You cannot import Oracle Essbase data by itself. Essbase data can only be imported as part of full snapshot import.

To restore artifacts from a snapshot:

  1. Access the environment as a Service Administrator. See Accessing EPM Cloud.
  2. Complete a step:
    • Click Tools and then Migration.
    • Profitability and Cost Management only: Click Application and then Migration(Migration).
  3. Click Snapshots.
  4. Select the snapshot that you want to use as the source to restore artifacts.

    • To restore all artifacts of a specific component:

      1. Expand the snapshot, and then click a component name; for example HP–Vision to list artifacts of the Vision sample application included in the snapshot.
      2. Click Import.

    • To restore specific artifacts of service components:

      1. Expand the snapshot, and then click a component name; for example HP–Vision to access a list of artifacts of the Vision sample application included in the snapshot.
      2. In Artifact List, expand the list of available artifacts, and then select the artifacts you want to restore.
      3. Click Close to return to Artifact Snapshots.
      4. Optional: Repeat the preceding steps to select artifacts from other components included in the snapshot.
  5. Click Selected Artifacts button (Selected Artifacts), and then verify the list of artifacts selected for export.
  6. Click Actions, and then select Import.
  7. Click OK.
    The Migration Status Report opens. Click Refresh to verify that the operation completes without errors. Click Cancel to close the report.