Tasks to Perform Before Cloning an Environment

When you clone an environment, Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management automatically completes all the actions required to create an exact copy of the current application in a target environment. Prepare the target environment before initiating this process:

  • Create and archive the latest backup snapshot of the target environment.

    Cloning does not delete the existing snapshots, or the files in the inbox and outbox of the target environment. If Artifact Snapshot exists in the target environment, cloning renames it as Artifact Snapshot_DATE_TIME; for example, Artifact Snapshot_2021_04_30_17:06:06.

  • Initiate cloning after the scheduled daily maintenance of the source and target environments. If the daily maintenance of the source environment starts while cloning is going on, the cloning process will be terminated. The cloning process on the target environment is not affected even if the cloning is going on at the start time of the daily maintenance. In this scenario, the daily maintenance will run after the cloning is complete.

    If the cloning of your environment takes a long time, reschedule the daily maintenance start time on the source environment to avoid the cloning process from being terminated. For information on resetting the daily maintenance start time, see: