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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Note the following limitations:
• Any mounted Storage Checkpoints must be unmounted before running the
following commands:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmclonedb -o umount,new_sid=new_sid \
-f SNAPPLAN
• It is only possible to mount a Storage Checkpoint carried over with the snapshot
volumes in a two-host configuration if the snapshot volumes were mounted with
the dbed_vmclonedb command with the -o mount option without the use of -r
relocate_path.
• Storage Checkpoints carried over with the snapshot volumes can be mounted
before a clone database is created using dbed_vmclonedb with the -o mount
option. After a clone database is created using dbed_vmclonedb with the -o
recoverdb option, however, Storage Checkpoints are no longer present.
To back up the database using the snapshot
• Copy the snapshot volumes to tape or other appropriate backup media.
NOTE If you use the Oracle online backup method, you must also back up all the archived log
files in order to do a complete restore and recovery of the database.