Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

To create Storage Checkpoints while the database is offline
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Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/9i -o offline
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672044 created.
The default option is online.
To create instant Storage Checkpoints
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Ensure that the database is online and use the dbed_ckptcreate command
as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/9i -o instant
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672045 created.
To assign a Storage Checkpoint allocation policy to a Storage checkpoint
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Use the dbed_ckptcreate command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/9i -o online -p ckpt_data,ckpt_metadata
Creating online Storage Checkpoint of database PROD.
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672044 created.
Scheduling Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptcreate and
cron
You can use the dbed_ckptcreate command to schedule Storage Checkpoint
creation in a cron job or other administrative script.
Before scheduling Storage Checkpoints, the following conditions must be met:
■ You must be logged on as the database administrator (typically,
the user ID oracle).
Prerequisites
329Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Command Line Interface
About the command line interface