HP 3PAR Recovery Manager 4.5.0 for Oracle on Solaris, Red Hat Linux, and Oracle Enterprise Linux User's Guide (QL226-97705, May 2014)

• If the Oracle database is an RAC database, all RAC instances must share the same archive
log destinations (i.e., the same cluster file system or the same ASM disk groups).
• If the database files are symbolic links pointing to actual files and the links do not reside on
the same file systems as the actual files, only the actual files are backed up. Otherwise, only
the first links and the actual files are backed up; intermediate links will not be backed up.
You must run this command as a super user or Oracle owner user from the backup server. To allow
the Oracle Database Administrator (Oracle owner) to run this command, an identical Oracle
Database Administrator user must exist on backup server. In addition, permission on the Recovery
Manager for Oracle Installation and Repository directories must be changed appropriately.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-s <oracle_sid>
The Oracle SID of the database instance. For Real Application Cluster (RAC) database, an Oracle
SID of any RAC instance can be specified.
-p <db_server>
The corresponding host name of the database server where the specified Oracle database instance
is running. The value of the database server name must match the output of the hostname
command.
-o online
Creates a Virtual Copy for datafile and archive log virtual volumes while the database is online.
This is the default option.
-o offline
Creates a Virtual Copy of datafile virtual volumes while the database is offline.
-o datafile
Creates a Virtual Copy of datafile virtual volumes while the database is online.
-o archlog
Creates a Virtual Copy of archive log virtual volumes while the database is online.
-v
Runs the command in verbose mode.
-f
Force to create a database Virtual Copy with a retention time. If retention time is specified either
through the Recovery Manager for Oracle configuration file or through the -r option. This option
must be specified.
-e <time> {d|D|h|H}
Specifies the relative time from the current time that volume will expire. <time> is a positive integer
value and in the range of 1 to 43,800 hours (1825 days). d|D means days. h|H means hours.
A value of 0 indicates the Virtual Copy does not have an expiration period. If the -r option is
used, the expiration time must be equal to or longer than the retention time.
-r <time>{d|D|h|H}
Specifies the amount of time, relative to the current time, that the Virtual Copy will be retained. If
the -r option is not specified, the retention time of the Virtual Copy defaults to the value set in the
configuration file. <time> is a positive integer value and in the range of 0 to 43800 hours (1825
days). d|D means days. h|H means hours. A value of 0 indicates the Virtual Copy does not have
a retention period.
80 Using the Recovery Manager Command Line Interface