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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

The recommended backup strategy


Generally speaking, your environment should be backed up on a regularly scheduled basis. These are standard operating procedures, and we will discuss them toward the end of this section. In addition to this, occasional one-off backups may be needed. By considering the proposed backup strategy outlined here, you should be protected for the majority of cases and will be able to perform effective recovery, if needed.

The following table is a summary of the actions described in this section, as well as when and what type of backup to perform:

Event

When

Backup schedule

Backup type

New installation

After installation

One-off

Offline

Upgrading

Before and/or after upgrading

One-off

Offline

Applying patches

Before and/or after patching

One-off

Offline

Configuration changes

Before and/or after changes

One-off

Offline

Architectural changes

Before and/or after changes

One-off

Offline

Code deployment

Only if needed

Never

Offline

After a new installation...