Requesting an Old Backup Snapshot of an Environment

Artifact snapshots created by the daily maintenance process are archived every day to Oracle Object Storage. Production and test environment backups are retained for 60 days. Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM support self-service operations using the listBackups and restoreBackup EPM Automate commands to check for and copy available backup snapshots from Object Storage to your environment.

If you want to archive the maintenance snapshots for more than 60 days, you can download and store the Artifact Snapshot(for environments other than Narrative Reporting) or EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz (for Narrative Reporting) every day. You can set up your backup process using EPM Automate. See Back up Application Snapshot to a Computer in Working with EPM Automate for information on automating the process of backing up the daily maintenance snapshot.

If you are unable to use EPM Automate to copy the backup snapshot, Oracle can provide you production environment backups from specific dates only from the last sixty days.

How to Request a Backup Snapshot

For the cases previously mentioned, you can request Oracle for a backup snapshot.

To request Oracle for a backup snapshot, create a technical service request. See Submitting a Technical Service Request. In the service request, specify:

  • The URL of the environment from which backup snapshot is required.
  • The date from which backup snapshot is required.
  • The reason why you need the backup snapshot.

If the snapshot from the requested date is available, Oracle copies it to your production environment. You can use EPM Automate commands or equivalent Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management Migration screens to complete these tasks:

  • View the backup snapshot (use the listFiles command).
  • Download the snapshot to a local computer (use the downloadFile command).
  • Recreate the environment and restore it using the backup snapshot.
    • Use epmAutomate recreate -f to ensure that the snapshot is retained after recreating the environment. Do not use the removeAll=true option, which deletes the snapshot. See recreate command for detailed information
    • For Business Processes other than Narrative Reporting: Use epmAutomate importSnapshot SNAPSHOT_NAME to import the snapshot. See importSnapshot command for detailed information.
    • For Narrative Reporting only:
      1. Rename the downloaded snapshot as EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz.
      2. Upload the snapshot to the to_be_imported location of Narrative Reporting.

        Use epmAutomate uploadFile EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz to_be_imported to upload EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz. See uploadFile command for detailed information.

        The uploaded EPRCS_Backup.tar.gz will be imported during the next maintenance of the environment.