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

Table 11-1
Database Checkpoint commands (continued)
DescriptionCommand
Command that rolls back an Oracle instance to a Storage
Checkpoint point-in-time image.
See “Performing Storage Rollback using dbed_ckptrollback”
on page 219.
dbed_ckptrollback
Command that removes a Storage Checkpoint for an Oracle
instance.
See “Removing Storage Checkpoints using
dbed_ckptremove” on page 221.
dbed_ckptremove
Command that creates a copy of an Oracle database by
cloning all existing database files and recreating the control
file accordingly. This cloned database can only be started
on the same host as the existing database as long as it uses
a different SID.
See “Cloning the Oracle instance using dbed_clonedb”
on page 221.
dbed_clonedb
This section displays examples of SFDB commands that are used to perform
administrative operations for Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollbacks. Review
the prerequisites and usage notes listed for each command before using that
command.
Note: For detailed information about these commands, their command syntax,
and available options, see the individual manual pages.
Creating or updating the repository using dbed_update
You can use the dbed_update command to create or update the repository.
Note: Any time you change the structure of the database (for example, by adding
or deleting datafiles, converting PFILE to SPFILE, or converting SPFILE to PFILE),
you must run the dbed_update command.
Before creating or updating the repository, the following conditions must be met:
211Using Database Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
Database Storage Checkpoint Commands