Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Administrator's Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, Second Edition, December 2008

the dbed_ckptmount command, and then back it up using tools such as tar or
cpio.
The following are usage notes for backing up a database with the dbed_ckptcreate
command:
■ See the dbed_ckptcreate(1M), dbed_ckptmount(1M), tar(1),
and cpio(1) manual pages for more information.
Usage notes
To back up a frozen database image using the command line
1
Assuming all the database datafiles in this example reside on one VxFS file
system named /db01, create a Storage Checkpoint using the dbed_ckptcreate
command:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptcreate -S PROD -H /oracle/product \
-o online
Storage Checkpoint Checkpoint_903937870 created.
2
Mount the Storage Checkpoint using the dbed_ckptmount command:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_ckptmount -S PROD -c Checkpoint_903937870 \
-m /tmp/ckpt_ro
If the specified mount point directory does not exist, then dbed_ckptmount
creates it before mounting the Storage Checkpoint, as long as the Oracle DBA
user has permission to create it.
3
Use tar to back up the Storage Checkpoint:
$ cd /tmp/ckpt_ro
$ ls
db01
$ tar cvf /tmp/PROD_db01_903937870.tar ./db01
Recovering a database using a Storage Checkpoint
Becasue Storage Checkpoints record the before images of blocks that have changed,
you can use them to do a file-system-based storage rollback to the exact time when
the Storage Checkpoint was taken. You can consider Storage Checkpoints as
backups that are online, and you can use them to roll back an entire database, a
tablespace, or a single database file. Rolling back to or restoring from any Storage
Checkpoint is generally very fast because only the changed data blocks need to
be restored.
Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
Backing up and recovering the database using Storage Checkpoints
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