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

To copy a snapplan from the SFDB repository to your current directory
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Use the dbed_vmchecksnap command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S ORACLE_SID \
-f SNAPPLAN -o copy
In the following example, the snapplan, snap1, is copied from the VxDBA
repository to the current directory.
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S PROD -f snap1 -o copy
Copying 'snap1' to '/export/snap_dir'
Removing a snapplan
A snapplan can be removed from a local directory or repository if the snapplan
is no longer needed.
To remove a snapplan from the SFDB repository
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Use the dbed_vmchecksnap command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S ORACLE_SID -f\
SNAPPLAN -o remove
In the following example, the snapplan, snap1, is removed from the SFDB
repository.
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_vmchecksnap -S PROD -f snap1 -o remove
The snapplan snap1 has been removed.
Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)
The dbed_vmsnap command creates a snapshot of an Oracle database by splitting
the mirror volumes used by the database into a snapshot database. You can use
the snapshot image on either the same host as the database or on a secondary
host, provided storage is shared by the two hosts.
The snapshot image created by dbed_vmsnap is a frozen image of an Oracle
database’s datafiles. The dbed_vmsnap command ensures that a backup control
file is created when the snapshot database is created, which allows for complete
data recovery, if needed.
For Database FlashSnap status information:
Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
FlashSnap commands
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