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

Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback

Examples of Using the Command Line Interface

Chapter 4

Examples of Using the Command Line Interface

Review the examples for using the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC command

line interface to perform administrative operations. For more detailed information about

the commands and their syntax and available options, see the individual manual pages.

• “Prerequisites” on page 54

• “Creating or Updating the Repository Using dbed_update” on page 54

• “Creating Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptcreate” on page 55

• “Displaying Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptdisplay” on page 56

• “Mounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptmount” on page 59

• “Unmounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptumount” on page 60

• “Performing Storage Rollback Using dbed_ckptrollback” on page 61

• “Removing Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptremove” on page 62

• “Cloning the Oracle Instance Using dbed_clonedb” on page 62

Prerequisites

• You must log in as the database administrator to use the following CLI commands.

dbed_update

dbed_ckptcreate

dbed_clonedb

• You can log in as the database administrator (typically, the user ID oracle) or

superuser to use the following CLI commands.

dbed_ckptdisplay

dbed_ckptmount

dbed_ckptumount

dbed_ckptrollback

dbed_ckptremove

Creating or Updating the Repository Using dbed_update

You can use the dbed_update command to create or update the repository.

Any time you change the structure of the database (for example, by adding or deleting

datafiles, converting PFILE to SPFILE, or converting SPFILE to PFILE), you must run

dbed_update.

Before creating or updating the repository, the following conditions must be met: