Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

Creating Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptcreate
You can use the dbed_ckptcreate command to create a Storage Checkpoint from
the command line.
Storage Checkpoints can be either online, offline, or instant. By default, Storage
Checkpoints are offline. If online is specified, the database is put into hot-backup
mode when the Storage Checkpoint is created. If offline is specified, the database
is expected to be down. If instant is specified, the database must be online and
a Storage Checkpoint will be taken for a “crash recovery”-type Storage Rollback.
Before creating a Storage Checkpoint, the following conditions must be met:
■ You must be logged on as the database administrator (typically,
the user ID oracle).
■ For best recoverability, always keep ARCHIVELOG mode enabled
when you create Storage Checkpoints.
Prerequisites
■ This command is supported by Veritas Storage Foundation for
Oracle RAC.
■ In a Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle environment,
dbed_ckptcreate stores Storage Checkpoint information under the
following directory:
/etc/vx/vxdbed/$ORACLE_SID/checkpoint_dir
■ See the dbed_ckptcreate(1M) manual page for more information.
Usage notes
To create Storage Checkpoints while the database is online
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Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/9i -o online
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672042 created.
To create Storage Checkpoints without updating the repository while the database
is online
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Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/9i -o online -n
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672043 created.
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