Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Using Database FlashSnap

for backup and off-host

processing

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ About Veritas Database FlashSnap

■ How to plan for Database FlashSnap

■ Hosts and storage for Database FlashSnap

■ Summary of database snapshot steps

■ Creating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)

■ Validating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)

■ Displaying, copying, and removing a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)

■ Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)

■ Backing up the database from snapshot volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)

■ Cloning a database (dbed_vmclonedb)

■ Resynchronizing your database to the snapshot

■ Resynchronizing the snapshot to your database

■ Removing a snapshot volume

■ Using Database FlashSnap in an HA environment

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