Backup and Restore Policy Overview

Introduction

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) team is responsible for configuring and managing the backup and restore for all Oracle Databases. The OCI team has adopted by default the regime known as the Oracle Suggested Backup Strategy.

Scheduling

The backups for the Oracle-Recommended Backup Strategy are scheduled to run by default as follows:

• Weekly full database backup on Sunday at 2AM
• Daily incremental backups on every other day at 2AM.
• Daily archive log backups are taken three times per day at 6AM, 2PM, and 10PM

Note:

The schedule times above are based on the Local Data Center Time.

Encryption

All backups are encrypted at two levels:

• OCI Storage
• RMAN (Oracle Recovery Manager)

Monitoring and Alerting

Monitoring of the backup activity is done through Oracle Enterprise Manager. Alerts are sent to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure database administration team if backup jobs fail so that remedial action can be taken.

Backup Retention

The retention period for backups defaults to 60 days.