Performing a backup of your data should be one of the key activities of your IT department in order to be prepared for any disaster or equipment failures that might occur. The public cloud, in our case – being an Oracle Partner – the Oracle Cloud, can provide you with a secondary (offsite) location to host a copy of your databases, files, and more. Since the first introduction of the public cloud, the cloud has matured significantly and reached such a level that placing a backup in the cloud feels like having a backup on your own premises. As many of you may know, there are endless possibilities on how you can perform a backup. In this paper, we are going to guide you through the Oracle Cloud technologies used for creating a highly secure backup solution for our customer.
In the customer’s previous setup, they had two backup procedures in place: a regular one and a non-regular one. The regular backup procedure contained a daily on-premise backup in location 1 and a monthly full backup via tape stored in their satellite location 2. The non-regular backup procedure was applicable for those files which were of the essence for the customer’s production environment. These processes were running via separate applications or scripts. This meant that maintaining the backup environment required a lot of management. Another disadvantage was that the processes were not registered, and the various processes were only known to the responsible people. In short, they had a backup infrastructure based on tapes and several separate scripts, and their objective was to replace it with one uniform backup procedure.