VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Appendix A, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Command Line Interface
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Examples of Using the Command Line Interface
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Options
-S ORACLE_SID Specifies the ORACLE_SID, which is the name of the
Oracle database, for which a snapshot image will be
created.
-g snap_dg Specifies the name of the disk group that contains all
snapshot volumes.
-o mount Mounts the file systems so you can use them to do a
backup.
-o mountdb Starts the database to allow manual database recovery.
-o recoverdb Automatically recovers the database.
-o restartdb Restarts the database if the clone database is shut
down. A clone database must exist to use the -o
restartdb option.
-o update_status Updates the database status information in the
VxDBA repository. This option is required only after
the database has been manually recovered (-o
mountdb).
-o umount Shuts down the clone database and unmounts all
snapshot files.
new_sid= Specifies the new ORACLE_SID for the snapshot
image.
This is a required argument.
vxdbavol=vol_name Specifies the volume that contains snapplan data. This
name is not determined by the user. It is provided
after you run vmsnap -o snapshot.
This parameter is required when creating the clone in
a two-host configuration.
-f SNAPPLAN Indicates the name of the snapplan that you are using.
-H Specifies the Oracle home directory that corresponds
to the ORACLE_SID.
This is an optional argument.