About Oracle FPP Server Backup and Restore Options

Backup the Oracle FPP Server and use the restore and relocate features to restore the Oracle FPP Server to the same or another system.

Oracle FPP is used to manage large fleets of Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database deployments on different types of hardware. To avoid data loss due to system failure, or to relocate your Oracle FPP Server to a different hardware, you can create a backup of the entire Oracle FPP Server. The following backup and restore options are available:

• A full backup of the FPP server. It represents a recovery point-in-time of a complete and working Oracle FPP Server. The full backup is an auto-contained group of files and directories from where you can restore the Oracle FPP Server in case of a system failure or to relocate to a different hardware.
• A full restore from an Oracle FPP Server backup to restore Oracle FPP Server after a disaster. You must have a full backup to perform a full restore.
• A full restore to a different cluster, which relocates the current Oracle FPP Server to a new cluster. The original Oracle FPP Server converts into an Oracle FPP Client of the new server. You must move all Oracle FPP Clients to the new Oracle FPP Server after relocation.

Oracle FPP Server supports the following storage options for backup:

• Local file system.
• Network File System (NFS) accessible by the current Oracle FPP Server.

A full Oracle FPP Server backup includes metadata, credentials, list of the registered OS users, user actions, and gold images. Backup is stored in a zip format at the location that you specify during backup.

Note:

You should clean up the legacy gold images or archive the old gold images using the rhpctl archive image command.

Oracle FPP Backup and Restore Exclusions

• Ongoing move operations are not supported for restore and metadata of these operations is cleared.
• Incomplete images and working copies at the time of the backup are excluded from the backup and are removed from the metadata.
• All pending jobs for the Oracle FPP Server with expired timer are set to UNKNOWN and all pending jobs with running timer are set to ABORTED.
• For restore, working copies from the Oracle FPP Server are considered lost, thus their metadata is cleared. You can recreate or register them after the restore operation is complete.
• Any operations done between the backup and the restore are lost, including any operations done after recreating the Oracle FPP Server when creating the new cluster, whether for disaster recovery or relocation.