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

■ The disk space at backup location is automatically managed.
■ Each SFDB repository backup file has a timestamp in its filename.
■ The backup command preserves only last seven backups.
For high availability environments:
■ Make sure the backup location is accessible by all nodes.
■ The backup command can be run from any node.
Usage for sfua_rept_util:
sfua_rept_util -S ORACLE_SID -o backup [-d <directory>]
sfua_rept_util -S ORACLE_SID -o list [-d <directory>]
sfua_rept_util -S ORACLE_SID -o restore -f <backupfile> [-d <directory>]
Table 3-1
Options for sfua_rept_util
DescriptionValueOption
Specifies the SID of the database for which
the repository is being backed up.
ORACLE_SID-S
Specifies that the operation is to make a
backup.
backup-o
Specifies that the operation is to list the
backup files.
list-o
Specifies that the operation is a
restoration of the selected backup file.
restore-o
Specifies the directory location for the
backup or restore of the file. This option
is not mandatory. If you use this option
for backup, you must use this option for
listing available backups and restore.
directory-d
Specifies the file name for the repository
backup which will be restored . This option
is required for restoring a backup file.
filename-f
47Administering Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
Backing up and restoring the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository