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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Create New Storage Checkpoints displays a screen similar to the following:
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VxDBA: Create New Storage Checkpoints - PROD
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NOTICE: To correctly create a Storage Checkpoint, you must
have up-to-date tablespace information stored in VxDBA's database.
Are you certain the tablespace information is up-to-date? [y,n] y
Do you want to create a new Storage Checkpoint?
[y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Do you want to create an instant Storage Checkpoint?
[y,n,q,?] (default: n) n
By default, VxFS removes Storage Checkpoints when a file
system runs out of space. While this removal allows normal file
system operations to continue, Storage Checkpoint removal inhibits
your ability to recover a database using Storage Rollback. You can,
however, direct VxFS to retain Storage Checkpoints even in an
out-of-space condition.
Do you want this Storage Checkpoint to be retained if the
file systems run out of space? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) n
NOTICE: Oracle instance PROD is still running.
A Storage Checkpoint can be created using online database
backup mode (using alter tablespace ... begin backup).
Do you want to alter tablespaces for taking the Storage
Checkpoint? [y,n,q,?] (default: n) y
Running 'alter tablespace' to begin online backup mode.
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_971672042 created.
Running 'alter tablespace' to end online backup mode.
Running 'alter system switch logfile' to force a log switch.
Backing up init.ora file for PROD in
/etc/vx/vxdba/PROD/checkpoint_dir/Checkpoint_971672042
Backing up control file and log information for PROD in
/etc/vx/vxdba/PROD/checkpoint_dir/Checkpoint_971672042