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

Table 11-2
dbed_clonedb command options
DescriptionOption
Specifies the name of the new Oracle SID, which will be the name
of the new database instance.
-S CLONE_SID
Indicates the new mount point of the Storage Checkpoint.-m MOUNT_POINT
Indicates the name of the Storage Checkpoint.-c CKPT_NAME
Runs the command in interactive mode where you must respond
to prompts by the system. The default mode is non-interactive.
(Optional)
-i
Shuts down the clone database and unmounts the Storage
Checkpoint file system.
-o umount
Mounts the Storage Checkpoint file system and starts the clone
database. The -o restartdb option will not attempt to recover
the clone database.
-o restartdb
Used with the -o umount option. If the -d option is specified,
the Storage Checkpoint used to create the clone database will
be removed along with the clone database.
-d
Specifies a file containing initialization parameters to be
modified or added to the clone database's initialization
parameter file prior to startup. The format of the
pfile_modification_file is the same as that of the Oracle
initialization parameter file.
-p
To clone an Oracle instance with manual Oracle recovery
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Use the dbed_clonedb command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_clonedb -S new1 -m /tmp/new1 \
-c Checkpoint_1249624009 -i
Primary Oracle SID is FLAS11r1
New Oracle SID is new1
Cloning an online Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_1249624009.
Mounting Checkpoint_1249624009 at /tmp/new1.
All redo-log files found.
Creating initnew1.ora
from /tmp/vxdba.rel.tmp.28185/initFLAS11r1.ora.
Altering db_name parameter in initnew1.ora.
Editing remote_login_passwordfile in initnew1.ora.
Altering control file locations in initnew1.ora.
223Using Database Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
Database Storage Checkpoint Commands