Introduction Oracle Cloud provides you the option to enable automatic backups with the click of a button. In case you have different backup requirements, you still have the flexibility to create your manual backup configurations and create your backups via command-line tools or directly using RMAN. This applies to VM DB Systems, Exadata Cloud Service,…
Update August 7th, 2023: now it’s possible to create a database from backup across Availability Domains in the same region using Cloud Tooling for BaseDB and ExaDB-D. Introduction Oracle Cloud VM DB Systems provide fully automated backups that can be enabled by the click of a button. The backups are stored in an Oracle-managed bucket.…
Introduction Oracle Cloud databases provide fully automated backups that can be enabled by the click of a button. However, the backups are stored in an Oracle-managed bucket. Hence, the automatic backups can only be used to restore on the same database host or create a new database in the same availability domain. If you want…
Critical applications have the requirement to run 24/7 and tolerate hardware and software failure and even complete data center outages. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with its’ regions, Availability Domains (AD), and Fault Domains (FD) provides the needed building blocks to design and run high availability and disaster recovery architectures for your applications and databases. A region…
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