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
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•Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/10g -o online
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672042 created.
To create Storage Checkpoints without updating the repository while the database is
online
•Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/10g -o online -n
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672043 created.
To create Storage Checkpoints while the database is offline
•Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/10g -o offline
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672044 created.
The default option is online.
To create an instant Storage Checkpoints
• Ensure that the database is online and use the dbed_ckptcreate command as
follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/10g -o instant
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672045 created.
To assign a Storage Checkpoint allocation policy to a Storage Checkpoint
•Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/10g -o online -p ckpt_data,ckpt_metadata
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672044 created.
Displaying Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptdisplay
You can use the dbed_ckptdisplay command to display the Storage Checkpoints
associated with an Oracle database from the command line.
You can also use it to display fileset quota values.
Before displaying Storage Checkpoints, the following conditions must be met:
Table 4-6 Display Storage Checkpoints Notes
Prerequisites You may be logged in as either the database administrator or
superuser.