Archival, Retention, and Retrieval of Daily Snapshots

Daily snapshots are archived every day to Oracle Object Storage. Production and test environment snapshots are retained for 60 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 both production and 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. 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