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

Figure 5-3 Prerequisites for Creating a Snapshot of Your Database
There are many actions you can take after creating a snapshot of your database using Database
FlashSnap. You can create a clone of the database for backup and off-host processing purposes.
You can resynchronize the snapshot volumes with the primary database. In the event of primary
database failure, you can recover it by reverse resynchronizing the snapshot volumes.
Summary of Database Snapshot Steps 63