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

Figure 10-4
After creating a snapshot of your database
Create the snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmsnap -o snapshot)
Mount the snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmclonedb -o mount)
Mount the snapshot volumes
and create the clone
automatically
(dbed_vmclonedb -o
recoverdb)
Mount the snapshot volumes
and create the clone manually
(dbed_vmclonedb -o mountdb)
Update the status after the clone
has been recovered manually
(dbed_vmclonedb -o update_status)
Shut down the database and
unmount the snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmclonedb -o umount)
Is the clone on a
secondary host?
Snapshot
Do you want
to clone the
database?
Will you use a
clone on a
secondary host?
The snapshot
diskgroup will
be imported.
Are you done
with the
snapshot?
Deport the
snapshot disk
group.
Restart the clone database
(dbed_vmclonedb -o
restartdb)
Do you want to
resynchronize
the snapshot
volumes?
Yes
Yes
No
Do you want to (1)
mount the snapshot
volumes, (2) clone
the database
automatically, or (3)
clone manually?
(1) (2) (3)
Yes
Yes
Are you done
with the
snapshot?
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Resynchronize, Reattach
the snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmsnap -o resync)
Do you want to clone the database?
After creating the snapshot volumes, you can proceed to clone the database and
use the clone on a secondary host or resynchronize the snapshot volumes.
Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
About creating database snapshots
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