In this post we will review how to protect the data of one of the application servers.ones most used in large companies, Oracle Weblogic, where we will support it with Veeam Backup & Replication maintaining the good practice recommended by Oracle.

As always we must go to the official documentation of Oracle Weblogic where we will find the good practices and optionsoneRecommendations for backing up specific Oracle Weblogic data

https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/weblogic-server/14.1.1.0/index.html

After reading the documentation, we already know that there are two types of backups as well as the protection of specific folders of Oracle Weblogic

• Offline Backup
• online backup

And if in the case of the installation it applies, the “Backup Artifacts” must be included, which are simply other configuration folders of the operating system.

backup with Veeam Backup & Replication

To support Oracle Weblogic with Veeam Backup & Replication It is very simple, because if the physical or virtual machine, the backup methodology will be via Snapshot (using the optionsoneyes by default), which will include all the necessary files to recover Oracle Weblogic in case of any problem in the application server.

Now, as always, backups must be made as indicated in the official documentation, which is why we will review the paths of files and folders that must be backed up for a successful recovery, either granular or with the great features of Veeam Backup & Replication.

As we reviewed earlier, there are two types of backup Offline and Online, as the name itself says for Offline backup, it is mandatory to download all Oracle Weblogic services and then backup the Backup Artifacts, that is, the files or folders, to later upload the services, in these times (unless it is necessary) it is possibly not the best option because we will have the service terminated and that is unacceptable today No?.

That is why we will review the Online backup, which is the best option and does not have Oracle Weblogic service cancellations, therefore, when reviewing the official documentation, We must ensure that at the time the backup is executed there is no configuration change so that the backup remains consistent.

And of course the recovery is based on the Weblogic configuration files, via Instant VM Recovery or the mechanism that you require from Veeam Backup & Replication.