Take Snapshots and Restore Information
You can take a snapshot of your system at any time.
Take a Snapshot
Administrators can take a snapshot of the system at any time.
The latest content is saved to a snapshot.
Restore from a Snapshot
If something goes wrong, you can easily restore your content to a previous working state from a snapshot. You also restore snapshots when you migrate content between environments.
Before you start, read these tips about restoring snapshots.
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As you start to restore the snapshot, users currently signed in have their session terminated.
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After you restore from a snapshot, allow time for the restored content to refresh (for example, approximately 15 to 30 minutes for a large snapshot).
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Delivery schedules aren’t automatically restored or activated when you restore catalog content from a snapshot. This is so you can restore and activate deliveries at a time that suits you.
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You can restore snapshots taken at the same version (or earlier version) as the target environment.
You might experience unexpected results if you try to restore from a snapshot that was taken from a more recent update of Oracle Analytics.
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When you restore a snapshot taken from a different environment, you must upload the data associated with your file-based datasets to the target environment.
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If you restore a snapshot taken from Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 12c (or 11g), Oracle Analytics Server grants additional permissions to your existing application roles so that users automatically get access to new features in Oracle Analytics Server. After restoring the snapshot, you can fine-tune permission assignments to suit your users using two scripts:
grantPermissionSetsToBIRole
andrevokePermissionSetsFromBIRole
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If you installed Oracle Analytics Server 2024 or later and then you import a snapshot from an earlier version of Oracle Analytics Server, you must grant the BI Data Model Author application role the
semanticmodeler.author
andobis.administrator
permissions sets. This is so the users with the application role can access Semantic Modeler. See Grant Semantic Modeler Permissions Assignments.
To restore a snapshot:
Track Who Restored What and When
You can check the restore history to learn exactly when and what content was restored, and to check for any errors during the restore process. This might be useful if you experience issues during or after you restore a snapshot.
- Click Console.
- Click Snapshots.
- Click the Page menu and select Show Restore History.
Edit Snapshot Descriptions
You can add or update the description for any snapshot.
- Click Console.
- Click Snapshots.
- Select the snapshot you want to edit.
- Click Snapshot Actions .
- Click Edit Name.
- Update the description, and click OK.