Managing Fusion Applications - Oracle Fusion Applications Administration Essentials - page 93

reside in several directory structures. A high-level view (source: Oracle ) of the file
system layout is provided in the following figure:

Database backup

The following databases need to be backed up as part of the Oracle Fusion Applica-
tions backup process:

• Oracle FMW MDS repository : This contains the Fusion-Middleware-specific

metadata

• Oracle LDAP repository : This is the LDAP database that contains user ac-

counts and related attributes

• Oracle OIM repository : This contains the security policies

• Oracle Application database : This is the primary database for all transac-

tions and master data

Each of these databases can be backed up using standard database backup tools.

Backup options

Oracle Fusion Applications are intended to be an enterprise grade application. The
applications cannot be shut down for extended periods (if at all) for a backup opera-
tion. Accordingly, there are two backup options available for Oracle Fusion Applica-
tions:

• Offline backup : With this approach, the entire application is shut down. This

includes the Managed Server as well as the databases. This is a time-con-