Configuring backup storage in Oracle Database Cloud Service

Latest releases of the DBCS service have changes in the way the backup configuration should be set.

Prior to creating the DBS instance prepare the following:

• Log in OCI (gen2) user interface with a <user>, create a bucket in the object storage section and write down the name you gave as <bucketname>
• obtain the name of the storage namespace bucket with the following command(you need OCI CLI installed but note that it is the same as identity domain name) as <namespace>:

  $ oci os ns get
  {
  "data": "txlxfxnxcxclxxd2"
  }

• Construct an URL this way as <url>:

• https://swiftobjectstorage.<region>.oraclecloud.com/v1/<namespace>/<bucketname>
  such as
  https://swiftobjectstorage.eu-frankfurt-1.oraclecloud.com/v1/txlxfxnxcxclxxd2/ATtestdb

• Go to the Identity>Users section of the OCU user interface and, in the Auth Tokens section, create a token giving it a name and then copy the value generated as <password> [Note: user must belong to Administrators group]

Configure the backup with the values obtained previously and that’s it!

Enjoy 🙂