Veritas Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC Configuration Guide Extracts for HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite, Second Edition, May 2008

Using FlashSnap for Backup and Recovery
Backing Up the Database from Snapshot Volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)
Chapter 5
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Figure 5-6 Example System Configuration for Database Backup on a Secondary
Host
Snapshot volumes created
on t hese d isks ar e accessed
by both hosts
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disks are accessed by the
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Table 5-8 Backup Snapshot Notes
Prerequisites • You must be logged in as the Oracle database administrator to use
dbed_vmclonedb command.
• Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command, you must
validate a snapplan and create a snapshot.
• The volume snapshot must contain the entire database.
• Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command with the -r
relocate_path option (which specifies the initial mount point for
the snapshot image), the system administrator must create the
mount point and then change the owner to the Oracle database
administrator.