VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 13, Using the VxDBA Utility
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations
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Managing Storage Checkpoints
Use the Storage Checkpoint Administration menu option to create, display, mount, unmount, and
remove Storage Checkpoints. A Storage Checkpoint can be considered an online database backup
that contains a point-in-time database image. Storage Checkpoints can later be used to restore the
image of a file, a tablespace, or the entire database to any earlier state recorded by the Storage
Checkpoints.
This operation displays a screen similar to the following:
VxDBA uses the repository to determine the list of tablespaces, datafiles, and file systems for
Storage Checkpoint creation and removal. Select from the following Storage Checkpoint
Administration operations:
Create New Storage Checkpoints. Use this menu option to create a Storage Checkpoint as a
point-in-time image of the database and to back up control file, initialization file, and log
information. The database can be offline or online when you create a Storage Checkpoint.
Display Storage Checkpoints. Use this menu option to display the Storage Checkpoints created
by VxDBA. After displaying the VxDBA Storage Checkpoints, VxDBA asks if you want to
display any other Storage Checkpoints, such as Storage Checkpoints created by the Capacity
Planning Utility or NetBackup.
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle (ORACLE_SID 'PROD')
Menu: Storage Checkpoint Administration
Database Status : ONLINE
# File Systems : 1
# Tablespaces : 4
# Datafiles : 4
1 Create New Storage Checkpoints
2 Display Storage Checkpoints
3 Mount Storage Checkpoints
4 Unmount Storage Checkpoints
5 Remove Storage Checkpoints
? Display Help About the Current Menu
q Exit From Current Menu
x Exit From VxDBA Utility
Select Operation to Perform: