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suming approach and is usually chosen to set up a baseline backup. Incre-
mental future backups would use this baseline to update from. This backup
is also used when there is a significant upgrade or patching milestone.

• Online backup : With this approach, the application is available while the

backup is taken. This approach is usually used for incremental and daily
operational backups. Incremental database backup techniques are used at
the database level for this kind of backup. At the file system level, only file
changes would be backed up. An offline backup approach usually requires
an initial baseline backup.

Cloud Control backup

Oracle Fusion Applications contains several database and file systems that need to
be backed up. There are several industry-leading options for both backing up data-
bases and file systems. Product vendors have leading technologies to instantly cap-
ture changes and record them from a backup perspective.

However, from an Oracle Fusion Applications perspective, several backup sets need
to be brought together to create an integral backup that can be recovered. This re-
quires aligning of time stamps and other operational features, and does get complic-
ated from an orchestration perspective.

Oracle provides Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control, which combines the
backup orchestration across all components of Oracle Fusion Applications. Using
Cloud Control, a single integrated snapshot of the Oracle Fusion Applications can
be created at a certain point in time. It provides an extremely powerful approach for
managing the backup and recover of Oracle Fusion Applications.

The following figure shows the conceptual approach used by Cloud Control for
Oracle Fusion Applications backups: