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

Chapter 5

5 Using FlashSnap for Backup and

Recovery

This chapter contains the following topics:

• “About Veritas Database FlashSnap” on page 68

• “Planning to Use Database FlashSnap” on page 72

• “Preparing Hosts and Storage for Database FlashSnap” on page 73

• “Summary of Database Snapshot Steps” on page 83

• “Creating a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)” on page 88

• “Validating a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)” on page 95

• “Displaying, Copying, and Removing a Snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)” on page 97

• “Creating a Snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)” on page 100

• “Backing Up the Database from Snapshot Volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)” on page 103

• “Cloning a Database (dbed_vmclonedb)” on page 107

• “Resynchronizing the Snapshot to Your Database” on page 115

• “Removing a Snapshot Volume” on page 116