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

Table 9-1
dbed_clonedb command options (continued)
DescriptionOption
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 is the same as
the Oracle initialization parameter file.
-p
pfile_modification_file
To clone an Oracle instance with manual Oracle recovery
Use the dbed_clonedb command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_clonedb -S NEW9 -m /local/oracle9/1 \
-c Checkpoint_988813047 -i
Primary Oracle SID is TEST9i
New Oracle SID is NEW9
Checkpoint_988813047 not mounted at /local/oracle9/1
Mounting Checkpoint_988813047 at /local/oracle9/1
Using environment-specified parameter file
/local/oracle9/links/dbs/initTEST9i.ora
Default Oracle parameter file found:
/local/oracle9/links/dbs/initTEST9i.ora
Copying /local/oracle9/links/dbs/initTEST9i.ora to
/local/oracle9/1/testvol
171Using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
Cloning the Oracle instance using dbed_clonedb