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

To create a multi-mirror snaphot

Add the second mirror and DCO log. When allocating storage for the second

mirror and DCO logs, make sure the snap volumes are splittable. If snap

volumes are not splittable, dbed_vmchecksnap fails with appropriate errors.

# vxsnap -g dg_a addmir dg_a_vol1 alloc=dg_a03

Tag the newly added mirror with the same tag as that of the first mirror.

Assume that the volume has fastresync = on, has dcolog = on, and already

has one SNAPDONE mirror and is tagged with .

# vxedit -g dg_a set putil2=dbed_flashsnap dg_a_vol1-03

Add the SNAPSHOT_MIRROR keyword to the snapplan. Here is a sample snapplan.

SNAPSHOT_VERSION=5.0

PRIMARY_HOST=host1

SECONDARY_HOST=host1

PRIMARY_DG=PRODdg

SNAPSHOT_DG=SNAP_PRODdg

ORACLE_SID=PROD

ARCHIVELOG_DEST=/prod_ar

SNAPSHOT_ARCHIVE_LOG=yes

SNAPSHOT_MODE=online

SNAPSHOT_PLAN_FOR=database

SNAPSHOT_PLEX_TAG=dbed_flashsnap

SNAPSHOT_VOL_PREFIX=SNAP_

ALLOW_REVERSE_RESYNC=no

SNAPSHOT_MIRROR=2

Establishing a mandatory archive destination

When cloning a database using Database FlashSnap , the Oracle database must

have at least one mandatory archive destination.

If no mandatory archive destination is set, dbed_vmchecksnapresults in this error

message:

SFORA dbed_vmchecksnap ERROR V-81-5677 Could not find a mandatory,

primary and valid archive destination for database PROD.

Please review the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST_n parameters and check v$archive_dest.

Using Database FlashSnap for backup and off-host processing

Creating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap)

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