VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 12, Using the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Graphical User Interface

Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Managing Snapshots with Database FlashSnap

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Prerequisites

◆ Make sure you have enough disk space to create a clone database on your system.

◆ You must have an existing snapshot.

▼ To create a clone database with a snapshot

1. Click the Oracle icon in the object tree. (You may need to expand the tree view to find the

icon.)

2. Select one of the following methods to start the snapshot database.

◆ From the menu bar, select Oracle Databases > Start Up Snapshot Database.

◆ Right click the Oracle Databases icon to bring up a pop-up menu. Then click Start Up

Snapshot Database.

The Start Up Snapshot Database wizard screen is then displayed.

3. In the “connect as” section, enter the local path to Oracle home. Then, enter your Unix user

name, password.

4. For the primary database, enter the Oracle SID information.

5. Select whether you are recovering the database or restarting the database by clicking the

appropriate radio button.

Select Startup database if you are restarting a new snapshot database based on a snapshot.

Select Restart database if you are restarting a snapshot database that has already been

created.

6. For the snapshot database, enter the new Oracle SID, Snapplan file, VxDBA volume name,

Snapshot disk group name, and Relocate path in the appropriate fields.

Note To start an on-host snapshot database, the Relocate path is required. To start an off-host

snapshot database, the VxDBA volume name field is required. You can obtain this

information by viewing the details after you create a snapshot. If you did not retain the

information from the snapshot creation, you can use the dbed_vmchecksnap

command or use Viewlog via the GUI to retrieve the information. For more information,

see “Creating and Working with Snapplans Using dbed_vmchecksnap” on page 453.

7. Click Start Database.

8. At the confirmation prompt, click Ye s to confirm that you want to start the database.