Recovering from a Disaster

A disaster is defined as an event that will cause your System Home Region to become unavailable.

When a disaster occurs, your system will automatically be switched to your System Disaster Recovery Region, based on your service level agreements. When that happens you are responsible to tell the system what object storage region to connect to instead of the current one that is was linked to when the disaster happened (if that region has also became unavailable).

This section covers what you should do during a disaster and after it is resolved.

Switching To Your Disaster Recovery Region

Once your system has been switched to its System Disaster Recovery region, you will need to point it to a different data region for object storage access:

1. Log into each of the system environments.

2. In each environment look at all of your current File Storage Configurations.

3. Edit each File Storage Configuration and change the region field to your Object Storage Disaster Recovery Region.

4. Save your changes.

Switching Back To Your Home Region

When your home region has been recovered and data was restored, the system will be switched back to your System Home Region. At this point you will need to point it back to your Object Storage Home Region for object storage access:

1. Log into each of the system environments.

2. In each environment look at all of your current File Storage Configurations.

3. Edit each File Storage Configuration and change the region field to your Object Storage Home Region.

4. Save your changes.

Copying Back Your Object Storage Data

When you are switched back to your Object Storage Home Region, you may need to copy back some of the data that was created in your Object Storage Disaster Recovery Region. This may also include changes in bucket structure that you may have done while working in your disaster recovery regions.

• Changes in object storage bucket structure can be repeated in your home region manually after that region has been recovered.

• If you need to copy data back to your home region, refer to Using Replication in the Object Storage section of the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation for guidance.