How to resolve Sprinto check for Oracle Cloud ATP Database Backup enabling
About
Sprinto check: ATP database backup should be enabled
Oracle Cloud Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) provides a fully managed database service that is highly available, secure, and scalable. Enabling backups for your ATP database is essential for data protection, disaster recovery, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
Purpose
The purpose of enabling backups on Oracle Cloud ATP database is to ensure data availability, integrity, and recoverability. This feature helps you:
Data Protection: Enable backups to safeguard your critical data against accidental deletion, corruption, or loss due to system failures or disasters.
Disaster Recovery: Create backups to facilitate quick recovery in the event of data corruption, hardware failures, or other unforeseen incidents, minimizing downtime and ensuring business continuity.
Compliance Requirements: Meet regulatory and compliance requirements by implementing a robust backup strategy that includes regular backups and retention policies for your ATP database.
Enabling backups for your Oracle Cloud ATP database provides peace of mind, knowing that your data is securely backed up and can be restored quickly in case of emergencies.
How to resolve
By default, all the ATP databases created on Oracle Cloud has automatic backup enabled with backup retention set to 60 days. If required, you can set the backup retention period from 1 to 60 days.
Follow the below step to ensure your desire ATP database has the automatic backup enabled.
Before you begin
Ensure you the “Admin” access on the Oracle Cloud account you wish to perform the following action.
Enabling automatic backup
Log in to Oracle Cloud account using your credentials.
From the Oracle Cloud Dashboard, select Autonomous Database under Resource explorer.
Select your desired ATP database from the list.
On Autonomous Database information tab, ensure the Automatic backup retention period reflects the retention period.
If required, click on Edit next to the retention period to modify it.
Once you have enabled the backup, Sprinto fetches the changes and sets the respective Sprinto check status to “Passing.”
If you need any assistance with the Sprinto check, kindly get in touch with Sprinto support.