Archival, Retention, and Retrieval of Daily Snapshots

Classic Environments

Oracle archives the daily snapshots for the last three days only. You can request Oracle to provide you production and test environment backups from specific dates from the last three days. Additionally, Oracle archives weekly backup snapshots from the last 60 days. You can request Oracle to provide you production backups only for the last 60 days. However, backups from specific dates within that period may not be available. See Requesting an Old Backup Snapshot of an Environment for details.

OCI (Gen 2) Environments

Daily snapshots are archived every day to Oracle Object Storage. Production environment snapshots are retained for 60 days while test environment snapshots are retained for 30 days. You can use self-service operations using the listBackups and the restoreBackup EPM Automate commands to check for and copy available backup snapshots from Object Storage to your environment for the last 60 days for production environments and the last 30 days for test environments.

It is your responsibility to archive backups for any duration your organization requires. To do so, you download daily snapshots using the downloadfile EPM Automate command and archive them to an on-premise or cloud storage. You can also archive snapshots in Oracle Object Storage using the copyToObjectStorage EPM Automate command.

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
• Copying a Snapshot to or from Oracle Object Storage for a sample script for archiving daily snapshots in Oracle Object Storage