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

30 23 1,15 * * /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/ORA_HOME -o instant
Note: Instant Storage Checkpoints are not supported for Oracle RAC.
■ To create a Storage Checkpoint at 1:00 a.m. every Sunday while the database
is offline, include the following entry in your crontab file:
0 1 * * 0 /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD \
-H /oracle/product/ORA_HOME -o offline
Note: This is a crontab example for user oracle.
Mounting Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptmount
You can use the dbed_ckptmount command to mount a Storage Checkpoint for
the database from the command line.
Before mounting Storage Checkpoints, the following conditions must be met:
■ You must be logged on as the database administrator.Prerequisites
■ The dbed_ckptmount command is used to mount a Storage
Checkpoint into the file system namespace. Mounted Storage
Checkpoints appear as any other file system on the machine and
can be accessed using all normal file system based commands.
■ Storage Checkpoints can be mounted as read only or read-write.
By default, Storage Checkpoints are mounted as read only.
■ If the rw (read-write) option is used, _wrxxx, where xxx is an
integer, will be appended to the Storage Checkpoint name.
■ If the specified mount point directory does not exist, then
dbed_ckptmount creates it before mounting the Storage
Checkpoint, as long as the Oracle database owner has permission
to create it.
■ Database FlashSnap commands are integrated with Storage
Checkpoint functionality. It is possible to display and mount
Storage Checkpoints carried over with snapshot volumes to a
secondary host. However limitations apply.
See “Mounting the snapshot volumes and backing up” on page 179.
■ See the dbed_ckptmount(1M) manual page for more information.
Usage notes
Using Database Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
Database Storage Checkpoint Commands
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