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

Backing up and recovering the database using Storage
Checkpoints ........................................................................ 200
Specify the Storage Checkpoint option ..................................... 200
Verifying a Storage Checkpoint ............................................... 201
Backing up using a Storage Checkpoint ..................................... 204
Recovering a database using a Storage Checkpoint ..................... 205
Guidelines for Oracle recovery ...................................................... 207
Back up all control files before Storage Rollback ......................... 207
Ensure that the control files are not rolled back ......................... 207
Ensure that all archived redo logs are available .......................... 208
Media recovery procedures .................................................... 208
Database Storage Checkpoint Commands ........................................ 210
Creating or updating the repository using dbed_update ............... 211
Creating Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptcreate .................. 212
Displaying Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptdisplay .............. 214
Mounting Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptmount ................ 218
Unmounting Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptumount .......... 219
Performing Storage Rollback using dbed_ckptrollback ................ 219
Removing Storage Checkpoints using dbed_ckptremove .............. 221
Cloning the Oracle instance using dbed_clonedb ........................ 221
Chapter 12 Backing up and restoring with Netbackup in an
SFHA environment ...................................................... 227
About Veritas NetBackup ............................................................. 227
How block-level incremental backup works ............................... 228
About using Veritas NetBackup for backup and restore for
Oracle ................................................................................ 228
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Oracle Disk
Manager files ....................................................................... 229
Using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick I/O files for
Oracle ................................................................................ 229
Section 4 Tiering your storage ................................................. 231
Chapter 13 Understanding storage tiering with SmartTier ........... 233
About SmartTier ........................................................................ 233
SmartTier building blocks ............................................................ 234
About VxFS multi-volume file systems ..................................... 234
About VxVM volume sets ....................................................... 235
About volume tags ................................................................ 235
How SmartTier works ................................................................. 236
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