VERITAS FlashSnap Point-In-Time-Copy Solutions Administrator's Guide

Preface

The purpose of this guide is to demonstrate how to use VERITAS FlashSnap

software to

implement point-in-time copy solutions on enterprise systems. FlashSnap offers you flexible

solutions for the efficient management of multiple point-in-time copies of your data, and for

reducing resource contention on your business-critical servers.

Note This guide supersedes the VERITAS Off-Host Processing Using FastResync Administrator’s

Guide.

The database server products mentioned in this document may not be supported on certain

operating system platforms.

Most VERITAS Volume Manager commands require superuser or other appropriate

privileges.

The VERITAS FlashSnap Point-In-Time Copy Solutions Administrator’s Guide provides

information about how to implement solutions for online backup of databases and cluster-shareable

file systems, for decision support on enterprise systems, and for Storage Rollback of databases to

implement fast database recovery.

This guide is intended for experienced system administrators responsible for installing,

configuring, and maintaining high-availability clustered systems under the control of VERITAS

software.

This guide assumes that you have a good knowledge of:

◆ The AIX, HP-UX, Linux or Solaris

operating system (OS).

◆ AIX, HP-UX, Linux or Solaris system administration.

◆ Cluster hardware and its configuration in enterprise installations (for scenarios that use

clusters).

◆ Storage management.

◆ Configuration and administration of DB2, Oracle or Sybase databases (for operating systems

and scenarios that use these databases).