Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Figure 13-6
Example system configuration for database backup on a secondary
host
Snapshot volumes created
on these disks are accessed
by both hosts
Volumes created on these
disks are accessed by the
primary host
Network
Primary host for database Secondary host
Controllers
Local disks
Controllers
c1 c2 c3 c4 c4c3c2c1
Local disks
Back up to disk, tape or
other media by
Secondary host
Disk
Arrays
■ You must be logged in as the Oracle database administrator to use
dbed_vmclonedb command.
■ Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command, you must
create and validate a snapplan, and create a snapshot.
See “Summary of database snapshot steps” on page 249.
See “Validating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)” on page 263.
See “Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)” on page 270.
■ The volume snapshot must contain the entire database.
■ Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command with the -r
relocate_path option (which specifies the initial mount point
for the snapshot image), the system administrator must create the
mount point and then change the owner to the Oracle database
administrator.
Prerequisites
Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
Backing up the database from snapshot volumes (dbed_vmclonedb)
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