VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Appendix A, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Command Line Interface
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Scheduling Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptcreate and cron
You can use the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle dbed_ckptcreate command to
schedule Storage Checkpoint creation in a cron job or other administrative script.
Prerequisites
◆ You must be logged on as the database administrator (typically, the user ID oracle).
Usage Notes
◆ Create a new crontab file or edit an existing crontab file to include a Storage Checkpoint
creation entry with the following space-delimited fields:
minute hour day_of_month month_of_year day_of_week \
/opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate
where:
◆ minute - numeric values from 0-59 or *
◆ hour - numeric values from 0-23 or *
◆ day_of_month - numeric values from 1-31 or *
◆ month_of_year - numeric values from 1-12 or *
◆ day_of_week - numeric values from 0-6, with 0=Sunday or *
Each of these variables can either be an asterisk (meaning all legal values) or a list of elements
separated by commas. An element is either a number or two numbers separated by a hyphen
(meaning an inclusive range).
◆ See the dbed_ckptcreate(1M), cron(1M), and crontab(1) manual pages for more
information.