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

repository. The snapplan is validated using the dbed_vmchecksnap command with
the -o validate option.
Consider the following prerequisites and notes before validating a snapplan:
■ The database must be up and running while executing the
dbed_vmchecksnap command.
Prerequisites
■ The dbed_vmchecksnap command must be run as the Oracle
database administrator.
■ When using dbed_vmchecksnap -o validate to validate the
snapplan and storage, you can save the validation output. The
system administrator can use this information to adjust the storage
setup if the validation fails.
■ If a snapplan is updated or modified, you must re-validate it. It is
recommended that snapplans are revalidated when changes are
made in the database disk group.
■ See the dbed_vmchecksnap(1M) manual page for more
information.
Usage Notes
To validate a snapplan
1
Log in as an Oracle database administrator.
2
Change directories to the working directory your snapplan is stored in:
$ cd /working_directory
3
Validate the snapplan using the dbed_vmchecksnap command:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S ORACLE_SID \
-H ORACLE_HOME -f SNAPPLAN -o validate
Example to validate a snapplan for a snapshot image
In the following example, a snapplan, snap1, is validated for a snapshot image in
a same-node configuration. The primary host is host1 and the working directory
is /export/snap_dir. Commands are issued as an Oracle database administrator.
The following is an example of the dbed_vmchecksnap command and sample
output:
$ cd /export/snap_dir
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S PROD -H /oracle/product/orahome \
-f snap1 -o validate
Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
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