Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

About Disaster Recovery

Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence is built upon Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and leverages Oracle PaaS services like Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse.

For the Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence prebuilt content, you can provision a fresh Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence environment with the latest software and perform the data activation steps. Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications provides the data for Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence. Use a data reset to populate Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence with historical data from the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications source at any time. Customizations to Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence and any custom ETL and schemas are the key concerns in case of a region-wide disaster recovery event.

There is currently no automated failover in the event of a region-wide disaster. If you need a disaster recovery strategy for region-wide failures, then here are two suggestions:
  1. Purchase another Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence subscription and provision it in a region other than your production environment. This gives you another active environment for your business users in case the primary region has a disaster.
  2. Provision an Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence Additional Test Environment (ATE) in a different region than the production environment as a backup instance.
Note

Autonomous Data Guard and Cloning capability aren't supported to replicate Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence data. See Usage Guidelines for Autonomous Data Warehouse Associated with Fusion Data Intelligence.

In either option, you can connect the backup instance to the same Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications source as your production instance and refresh data. You may choose a different data refresh frequency (for example, daily or weekly) or a different start time compared to the production instance (for example, 12 hours after production instance daily refresh time). In the case of a disaster, the Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications source URL continues to be available after a failover.

Maintain the backup environment in synchrony with the primary production environment by repeating any action taken in the production environment. It is best to make this a part of your change process and operations play book. You can use Bundles as a tool to export customizations from the production environment and import them into the backup instance.

In the event of a disaster, you can ask key business users to use the Oracle Analytics Cloud URL from your backup instance until the production region is restored. If you setup ATE as a backup instance, it won’t have the same size as production. If you wish to switch all business users to this instance, then you will have to pay to scale-up the ATE resources such as Oracle Analytics Cloud OCPUs or Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse eCPUs and storage.

For non-OC1 (non-commercial) realms, an additional configuration is required. For example, if you want to create a backup instance in UK Gov West (Newport) while the primary is in UK Gov South (London), then you must:
  1. Sign in to the default domain, switch to the UK Gov West (Newport) region, and create a domain that is homed in the UK Gov West (Newport) region. See Creating an Identity Domain.
  2. Configure single sign-on to the domain in the UK Gov South (London) region. See Configure Single Sign-on Between Two Identity Domains.
  3. Sign in to the new domain in UK Gov West (Newport) and create the Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence instance. See Create an Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence Instance.