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

Examples of Using the Command Line Interface
Scheduling Storage Checkpoints Using sfrac_ckptcreate and
cron
You can use the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC sfrac_ckptcreate
command to schedule Storage Checkpoint creation in a cron job or other administrative
script.
Usage Notes
◆ Create a new crontab file or edit an existing crontab file to include a Storage
Checkpoint creation entry with the following space-delimited fields:
minute hour day_of_month month_of_year day_of_week \
/opt/VRTS/bin/sfrac_ckptcreate
where:
◆ minute - numeric values from 0-59 or *
◆ hour - numeric values from 0-23 or *
◆ day_of_month - numeric values from 1-31 or *
◆ month_of_year - numeric values from 1-12 or *
◆ day_of_week - numeric values from 0-6, with 0=Sunday or *
Each of these variables can either be an asterisk (meaning all legal values) or a list of
elements separated by commas. An element is either a number or two numbers
separated by a hyphen (meaning an inclusive range).
◆ See the sfrac_ckptcreate(1M), cron(1M), and crontab(1) manual pages for
more information.
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