VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Obtaining Database FlashSnap Snapshot Status and Database Status Using the CLI Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
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Obtaining Database FlashSnap Snapshot Status and Database
Status Using the CLI
You can obtain both the snapshot status and the database status from the command line using
thedbed_vmchecksnap command with the -o list option. The snapshot status and database
status information may also appear in error messages. The tables in this section provide detailed
information about the various status values.
Snapshot Status Details
To view snapshot status information from the command line, use thedbed_vmchecksnap
command with the -o list option to list all available snapplans for a specified database.
Snapshot status information is displayed in the command output under the column heading
SNAP_STATUS.
For information about the various status values, see the following table:
SNAP_STATUS Completed Operations Allowed Operations
init_full
◆ dbed_vmchecksnap -o
validate (successful)
◆ dbed_vmsnap -o resync
(successful)
◆ dbed_vmsnap -o
reverse_resync_commit
(successful)
◆ dbed_vmsnap -o snapshot
init_db
◆ dbed_vmchecksnap -o
validate -f snapplan
(failed)
◆ dbed_vmchecksnap -o
validate | list -f
snapplan
◆ Ensure that your storage
configuration has been set up
correctly. See “Preparing Hosts and
Storage for Database FlashSnap” on
page 204.
snapshot_start
◆ dbed_vmsnap -o snapshot
(failed)
◆ Contact your system administrator for
help. Use VERITAS Volume
Manager commands to resynchronize
the snapshot volumes, and use
dbed_vmsnap -o snapshot
-F to force snapshot creation.