Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle (5900-1504, April 2011)

About point-in-time copies

This chapter includes the following topics:

■ Database snapshot and backup options

■ About Veritas Database FlashSnap

■ How Veritas Database FlashSnap works

■ About Database Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback in SF Enterprise

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Database snapshot and backup options

You can configure the following database components for cloning and recovery

of databases:

■ Storage Checkpoints

■ Database FlashSnap

The following sections provide a brief overview of these features.

Database FlashSnap for cloning

Veritas Database FlashSnap helps to create a point-in-time copy of a database for

backup and off-host processing. Database FlashSnap lets you make backup copies

of your volumes online and with minimal interruption to users.

Database FlashSnap lets you capture an online image of an actively changing

database at a given instant that is known as a snapshot. A snapshot copy of the

database is referred to as a database snapshot. You can use a database snapshot

on the same host as the production database or on a secondary host sharing the

same storage. A database snapshot can be used for off-host processing applications,

such as backup, data warehousing, and decision-support queries. When the

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