VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
350 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Displaying Storage Checkpoints
This operation displays the list of Storage Checkpoints created by the VxDBA utility on the file
systems used by the Oracle instance. VxDBA also asks if you want to display Storage Checkpoints
created by other applications, such as Capacity Planning Utility or NetBackup.
While you see and manage only a single Storage Checkpoint, the Storage Checkpoint is a collection
of Storage Checkpoints. Each file system used by the database contains a Storage Checkpoint of the
same name, and it is this collection of Storage Checkpoints across file systems that you manage as
a single Storage Checkpoint in VxDBA.
Storage Checkpoints are of the following types:
◆ ON–Online
◆ OF–Offline
◆ IN–Instant
◆ UN–Unknown
Storage Checkpoints may have additional status appended to show other attributes. Current
additional status modifiers are:
◆ M–Mounted
◆ R–Read-only
◆ W–Writable
◆ I–Invalid for current Oracle SID
◆ C–Complete
◆ P–Partial
The status of a Storage Checkpoint can be 'C' for Complete or 'P' for partial. Complete means that
the Storage Checkpoint successfully completed across all file systems used by the database, and
each file system contains the same Storage Checkpoint name. Partial means that the Storage
Checkpoint operation did not successfully complete or that one or more of the file systems used by
the database does not contain the named Storage Checkpoint. Partial Storage Checkpoints can
happen if, for example:
Backing up include file and list of file system for VxDBA in
/etc/vx/vxdba/PROD/checkpoint_dir/Checkpoint_971672042
Do you want to display the instance's Storage
Checkpoints? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y