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

■ You must be logged in as the Oracle database administrator to use
dbed_vmclonedb command.
■ Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command, you must
validate a snapplan and create a snapshot.
See “Backing up the database from snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmclonedb)” on page 177.
See “Validating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)” on page 167.
See “Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap)” on page 174.
■ The volume snapshot must contain the entire database.
■ Before you can use the dbed_vmclonedb command with the -r
relocate_path option (which specifies the initial mount point
for the snapshot image), the system administrator must create the
mount point and then change the owner to the Oracle database
administrator.
Prerequisites
■ The dbed_vmclonedb command can be used on the secondary
host.
■ In a same-node configuration, the primary and secondary hosts
are the same.
■ In a same-node configuration, -r relocate_path is required
if no mapped mounts were specified or some of the mapped mount
entries were left blank in the snapplan.
■ See the dbed_vmclonedb(1M) manual page for more information.
Usage Notes
Mounting the snapshot volumes and backing up
Before using the snapshot volumes to do a backup, you must first mount them.
Note: You must issue commands as an Oracle database administrator in the
following procedure.
Note: If you use the Oracle online backup method, you must also back up all the
archived log files in order to do a complete restore and recovery of the database.
179Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing
FlashSnap commands