VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 for Oracle RAC HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Extracts, December 2005

Setting Up the SFRAC Storage Checkpoint Feature for Use

To enable use of the Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Storage Checkpoint feature:

✔ Set the ownership and permissions for the Storage Checkpoint utility.

✔ Choose only one instance from the database for which you want to create and manage

a Storage Checkpoint.

✔ From the appropriate system, create a repository directory. This directory may be

created on a cluster file system, on private shared storage, or within a local file system.

The procedure that follows describes creating the repository on a cluster file system. A

repository is required for storing information about the database elements.

✔ Set the ownership and permissions on the repository directory.

✔ Create a locks directory in the repository directory.

✔ Create the repository.

✔ Create the Storage Checkpoint for the database.

Perform the following steps on the node where the instance is running. In these examples,

the owner is oracle and the group is dba.

▼ To enable Oracle user and dba group access to VRTSdbckp directory

1. Log in as root user and move to the /opt directory:

# cd /opt

2. Set the ownership and permissions of the VRTSdbckp directory:

# chown oracle /opt/VRTSdbckp

# chmod 500 /opt/VRTSdbckp

# chgrp dba /opt/VRTSdbckp

# chmod 550 /opt/VRTSdbckp

3. Perform the preceding steps on all nodes in the cluster.

▼ To choose a database instance and create a repository directory

1. Log in to the system running an instance of the database for which you want to create

and manage a Storage Checkpoint.

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