Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Create Long-Term Retention Backups with Recovery Service

You can create long-term retention backups (LTR) for compliance, regulatory, and other business needs. LTR backups are independent of the automatic backups and stored in the Object Storage Infrequent Access tier. You can restore an LTR backup to create a new database within the retention period.

Recovery Service retains long-term backups for a period ranging from 90 days to 10 years.

In the OCI Console, create a LTR backup from the Backups section of the Database details page. Choose one of these options for an LTR backup:
  • Retain backup per protection policy retention period: Select this option to retain an LTR backup as per the retention period set in the associated protection policy. For example, if the database is associated with the Gold protection policy, then Recovery Service retains the LTR backup for a maximum period of 65 days.
  • Specify long-term backup retention period: Choose this option to define a custom long-term retention period ranging from a minimum period of 90 days to a maximum period of 3650 days (10 years) from when the LTR backup was created.

Recovery Service automatically deletes an LTR backup after the specified retention period ends.

The Backups section of the Database details page lists all the backups, including the Long-term backup type that you create.

When you terminate a database, Recovery Service retains the LTR backups as per one of these retention options that you have selected while terminating the source database:
  • Delete backups in 72 hours: Recovery Service retains LTR backups for a maximum period of 72 hours after you terminate the database.
  • Delete based on policy: Recovery Service retains LTR backups until the LTR retention period ends.
Note

Recovery Service currently supports LTR backups for the Oracle Base Database Service. See Long Term Retention Backup for detailed information about creating and managing LTR backups using the OCI Console.