Archival, Retention, and Retrieval of Daily Backups

Daily backups from the production and test environments are archived to Oracle Object Storage and retained for 60 days.

You can use these EPM Automate commands the or corresponding REST APIs to work with archived Environment backups and Artifact Snapshots:

• listBackups to list the available Environment backups and Artifact Snapshots archived on Oracle Object Storage
• restoreBackup to copy available snapshots from Object Storage to your environment

Note:

Environment Backups cannot be downloaded to an environment or to your local computer.

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

Note:

Environment Backups, because they cannot be downloaded to your local environment or copied to your own Object Storage, cannot be archived beyond 60 days.