VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

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Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback

The VERITAS Storage Checkpoint feature is available with the Enterprise Edition as part of the

VERITAS File System package and is used for the efficient backup and recovery of Oracle

databases. Storage Checkpoints can also be mounted, allowing regular file system operations to be

performed. This chapter describes what Storage Checkpoints and storage rollback are and how to

make use of these technologies through VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

◆ “Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback for Backup and Restore” on page 163

◆ “Determining Space Requirements for Storage Checkpoints” on page 165

◆ “Performance of Storage Checkpoints” on page 167

◆ “Storage Checkpoint Allocation Policies” on page 168

◆ “Backing Up and Recovering the Database Using Storage Checkpoints” on page 176

◆ “Guidelines for Oracle Recovery” on page 181

◆ “Using the VxDBA Utility or GUI to Perform Storage Checkpoint-Related Operations” on

page 183