Veritas Storage Foundation™ 5.0.1 for Oracle RAC Installation, Configuration, and Administrator's Guide Extracts for the HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite on HP-UX 11i v3

Viewing Information on a Disk Group .....................................................................................25
Checking the Connectivity Policy on a Shared Disk Group......................................................25
Determining Whether a Node is CVM Master or Slave.............................................................25
Enabling Write Access to Volumes in the Disk Groups.............................................................25
Deporting and Importing Shared Disk Groups.........................................................................26
Reviewing Limitations of Shared Disk Groups.........................................................................26
About Raw Volumes Versus CFS for Data Files..............................................................................26
Overview of SGeRAC Installation and Configuration Tasks...............................................................27
Setting up Backup and Recovery Feature for SGeRAC (optional)..................................................27
3 Configuring the Repository Database for Oracle.....................................................29
About Configuring the Repository Database for Oracle......................................................................29
Creating and Configuring the Repository Database for Oracle...........................................................29
Setting Administrative Permissions ...............................................................................................30
4 Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback...................................................31
About Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback in SGeRAC...........................................................31
Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback for Backup and Restore.........................................31
About Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback..........................................................................31
Determining Space Requirements for Storage Checkpoints................................................................32
Performance of Storage Checkpoints....................................................................................................33
Backing up and Recovering the Database Using Storage Checkpoints...............................................34
Verifying a Storage Checkpoint Using the Command Line............................................................34
Backing up using a Storage Checkpoint....................................................................................35
Recovering a Database Using a Storage Checkpoint.................................................................35
Guidelines for Oracle Recovery............................................................................................................36
Using the Storage Checkpoint Command Line Interface (CLI)...........................................................37
Overview of Commands.................................................................................................................38
Examples of Using the Command Line Interface.................................................................................38
Prerequisites....................................................................................................................................39
Creating or Updating the Repository Using dbed_update.............................................................39
Creating Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptcreate...................................................................39
Displaying Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptdisplay.............................................................40
Scheduling Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptcreate and cron..........................................42
Scheduling Storage Checkpoint Creation in a cron Job.............................................................43
Mounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptmount...............................................................43
Unmounting Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptumount........................................................44
Performing Storage Rollback Using dbed_ckptrollback.................................................................44
Removing Storage Checkpoints Using dbed_ckptremove..............................................................45
Cloning the Oracle Instance Using dbed_clonedb..........................................................................46
5 Using FlashSnap for Backup and Recovery..............................................................49
About Veritas Database FlashSnap.......................................................................................................49
Solving Typical Database Problems with Database FlashSnap.......................................................50
About Database FlashSnap Applications........................................................................................50
Using Database FlashSnap..............................................................................................................50
Using Database FlashSnap Commands...........................................................................................51
Using Database FlashSnap Options................................................................................................52
Planning to Use Database FlashSnap....................................................................................................52
Selecting the Snapshot Mode...........................................................................................................52
Preparing Hosts and Storage for Database FlashSnap ........................................................................53
Setting Up Hosts..............................................................................................................................53
Single Host Configuration .........................................................................................................53
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