User's Manual

2.5
Interacting with Veritas Volume Manager
Recovery Manager for Oracle User’s Guide
To ensure that the database is running in automatic archive log mode, use SQL Plus to ensure
that the
Database log mode is Archive Mode and that Automatic archival is
Enabled, as in the following example:
2.4 Interacting with Veritas Volume Manager
Due to restrictions on VxVM, 3PAR Recovery Manager requires a minimum of two disk groups
per database.
Because of the Veritas VxVM disk group limitation of allowing only one imported VxDG per
disk group, Recovery Manager allows only one virtual copy per database to be mounted at a
time. You must unmount the virtual copy for a database after it has been backed up in order to
mount another virtual copy.
$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Nov 14 13:59:13 2007
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Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Oracle Data
Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
SQL> archive log list
Database log mode Archive Mode
Automatic archival Enabled
Archive destination /rac9i_db/rac9i_arch2
Oldest online log sequence 764
Next log sequence to archive 764
Current log sequence 765
CAUTION: The archive log destination must reside on a different Veritas disk
group than any of the disk groups that contain data files for backup operations. It
is also recommended that all database data files be in one VxVM disk group.