VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Backing Up the Database from Snapshot Volumes (dbed_vmclonedb) Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
238 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
The following figure, “Example System Configuration for Database Backup on a Secondary Host”
on page 240shows a typical configuration when snapshot volumes are used on a secondary host.
Example System Configuration for Database Backup on a Secondary Host
Snapshot volumes created
on these disks are
accessed by both hosts
Volumes created on these
disks are accessed by the
primary host
Network
Primary host for database Secondary host
Controllers
Local
disks
Controllers
c1 c2 c3 c4 c4c3c2c1
Local
disks
Back up to disk, tape or
other media by
Secondary host
Disk
Arrays