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. Click Create Backup and then select the Specify long-term backup retention period option. Specify the long-term retention period in Days (90 - 3650) or Years (1 - 10) from when the backup was created.

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

Note

Refer the relevant OCI Database Service documentation for detailed steps to create LTR backups using the OCI Console.

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

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 specified LTR retention period ends.