VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide
Managing Storage Checkpoints Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
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Removing a Storage Checkpoint
Occasionally, you may need to manually remove Storage Checkpoints that are no longer needed.
For example, you can remove a Storage Checkpoint on a file system to free up needed space.
Prerequisites
◆ Before you can remove a mounted Storage Checkpoint, you must first unmount it.
▼ To remove a Storage Checkpoint
1. Click a specific Storage Checkpoint in the object tree. (You may need to expand the tree view
to find the Storage Checkpoint.)
2. Select one of the following methods to remove the Storage Checkpoint.
◆ From the menu bar, select Storage Checkpoint > Remove Storage Checkpoint.
or
◆ Right click the Storage Checkpoint you want to remove to bring up a pop-up menu. Then
click Remove Storage Checkpoint.
3. At the prompt, click Ye s to remove the Storage Checkpoint.
If the Storage Checkpoint was successfully removed, you will receive a confirmation message.
Click OK to continue.
Rolling Back to a Storage Checkpoint
You can roll back a database file, a list of database files, a single tablespace, or the entire database
to a Storage Checkpoint. To perform a Storage Rollback, you must have a valid Storage
Checkpoint. This option is not available with an instant Storage Checkpoint.
Note The GUI does not automatically roll back the control file associated with a Storage
Checkpoint. See “Guidelines for Oracle Recovery” on page 181 for information on database
recovery.
Note You must be the Database Administrator to perform Storage Rollback operations. You must
shut down the instance to perform full Storage Rollback of the database, or you can choose
to leave the database up to roll back a datafile or tablespace. In this situation, VERITAS
Storage Foundation for Oracle checks to see if the target database objects are offline before
proceeding. See “Backing Up and Recovering the Database Using Storage Checkpoints” on
page 176, and“Guidelines for Oracle Recovery” on page 181 for more information.