1. Getting Started with Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud for Administrators
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Backup and Disaster Recovery

Backup and Disaster Recovery

What is the process to take backup of EPM Cloud environment?

Each day, at the scehduled maintenance time of the environment, Oracle creates a maintenance snapshot called the Artifact Snapshot, which includes a backup of the existing artifacts and data. See Overview of the Maintenance Snapshot.

How long does Oracle retain production and test backups, and how do I copy a backup snapshot to my environment?

For OCI (Gen 2) environments, Oracle retains production and test environment snapshots for 60 days. Use the listBackups and restoreBackup EPM Automate commands to check for and copy available backup snapshots to your environment. You can also use the List Backups and Restore Backup REST APIs.

For Classic environments, Oracle archives the daily snapshots for the last three days (for production and test environments), and the weekly backup snapshots from the last 60 days (for production environments only). You can request Oracle to copy your test backups for the last three days and your production backups for the last 60 days. However, backups from specific dates within that period may not be available.

See Archival, Retention, and Retrieval of Daily Snapshots.

How do I restore EPM Cloud environments?

You can use the maintenance snapshot to recover artifacts and data from a previous day. If you want to restore from the previous day, you can use the Artifact Snapshot to restore from. Otherwise, you need to get the specific day's maintenance snapshot. On Classic environments, you can request Oracle to provide you with the older snapshots up to the constraints mentioned in the previous section. On OCI environments, you can copy the required snapshot to the environment, and then, import from it. See:

What happens when Daily Maintenance is kicked off?

Find information on Daily Maintenance in Daily Maintenance Operations.

What disaster recovery options are available for EPM Cloud?

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management Cloud provides self-service options to restore your environments to a working state. See: