Recovery Service uses protection policies to control database backup retention in Oracle Cloud. Learn how to use the OCI Console to configure and manage protection policies.

Protection Policies provide automatic backup retention for protected databases. Each protected database must be associated with one protection policy.

A protection policy determines the maximum period (in days) allowed to retain backups created by Recovery Service. Based on your business requirements, you can assign separate policies for each protected database or use a single policy across all protected databases in a VCN.

You can use two types of protection policies:

Oracle-defined

There are four Oracle-defined protection policies based on typical use cases for backup retention. You cannot modify these policies.

• Platinum: The Platinum policy retains backups for 95 days
• Gold: The Gold policy retains backups for 65 days
• Silver: The Silver policy retains backups for 35 days
• Bronze: The Bronze policy retains backups for 14 days

User-defined

These are custom protection policies that you can create based on your business requirements. Custom policies limit backup retention period to a minimum period of 14 days and to a maximum period of 95 days.

The OCI Console is the primary interface to configure protection polices for all databases in your tenancy.