Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

List the available mirrored data plex for the volume:

vxprint -g diskgroup -F%name -e"pl_v_name in \"volume_name\""

For example:

# vxprint -g flashdstdg16 -e"pl_v_name in\"datavol\""

TY NAME ASSOC KSTATE LENGTH PLOFFS STATE TUTIL0 PUTIL0

pl datavol-01 datavol ENABLED 4608000 - ACTIVE - -

sd c4t5d0-01 datavol-01 ENABLED 4608000 0 - - -

pl datavol-02 datavol ENABLED 4608000 - SNAPDONE - -

sd c4t6d2-01 datavol-02 ENABLED 4608000 0 - - -

Set the dbed_flashsnap tag on the break-off data plex for the volume:

vxedit -g diskgroup set putil2=dbed_flashsnap plex_name

For example:

# vxedit -g PRODdg set putil2=dbed_flashsnap snapdata-02

235Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing

Hosts and storage for Database FlashSnap