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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide

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Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide

Overview of this book

Oracle SOA Suite 12 c is the most comprehensive and integrated infrastructure on the market today that is used for building applications based on service-oriented architecture. With the vast number of features and capabilities that Oracle SOA Suite 12c has to offer comes numerous complexities and challenges for administration. Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administrator's Guide covers all the core areas of administration needed for you to effectively manage and monitor the Oracle SOA Suite environment and its transactions, from deployments, to monitoring, to performance tuning, and much, much more. Manage, monitor, and troubleshoot SOA composites and OSB services from a single product set. Understand core administrative activities such as deployments, purging, startup and shutdown, configuration, backup, and recovery. Also learn about new features such as Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, lazy loading, work manager groups, high availability, and more.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite 12 Administrator's Guide
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Understanding what needs to be backed up


Before describing how to back up your environment, it is important to understand what needs to be backed up first. We differentiate between static files, which are files that do not change frequently such as the software installation binaries, and dynamic data, otherwise referred to as runtime artifacts, which could include frequently updated data such as instance information and deployment metadata.

Static files

Static files and directories are those that do not change frequently. These files should be backed up when required, particularly when configuration changes, patching, or installations have been performed since the last backup. In most cases, static files can be backed up both online and offline.

Oracle system files

System files include the oraInst.loc and beahomelist files. These files point to the location of Oracle Inventory and WebLogic Server Home, respectively. This enables future patching or installations of other Oracle products to easily...