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

One or two snapshot hosts ..................................................... 223
Hosts and storage for Database FlashSnap ..................................... 223
Single-host configuration ...................................................... 224
Two-host or Oracle RAC configuration ..................................... 224
Host and storage requirements ............................................... 225
Creating a snapshot mirror of a volume or volume set used by
the database .................................................................. 226
Upgrading existing volumes to use Veritas Volume Manager
5.0 ............................................................................... 237
Upgrading from Veritas Database Edition 3.5 for Oracle with
Database FlashSnap ........................................................ 242
Summary of database snapshot steps ............................................. 243
Creating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap) ....................................... 247
Creating multi-mirror snapshots ............................................. 253
Validating a snapplan (dbed_vmchecksnap) ..................................... 255
Displaying, copying, and removing a snapplan
(dbed_vmchecksnap) ............................................................. 258
Creating a snapshot (dbed_vmsnap) ............................................... 260
Backing up the database from snapshot volumes
(dbed_vmclonedb) ................................................................ 263
Mounting the snapshot volumes and backing up ........................ 266
Restoring from backup .......................................................... 267
Cloning a database (dbed_vmclonedb) ............................................ 267
Using Database FlashSnap to clone a database ........................... 268
Shutting down the clone database and unmounting file
systems ........................................................................ 272
Restarting a clone database .................................................... 273
Recreating Oracle tempfiles ................................................... 274
Resynchronizing your database to the snapshot ............................... 276
Resynchronizing the snapshot to your database .............................. 279
Removing a snapshot volume ....................................................... 280
Using Database FlashSnap in an HA environment ............................ 281
Chapter 14 Using Veritas NetBackup for database backup ........... 283
About using Veritas NetBackup for backup and restore ..................... 283
Using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Quick I/O files ........... 283
About using Veritas NetBackup to backup and restore Oracle Disk
Manager files ...................................................................... 285
Chapter 15 Tuning for performance ................................................... 287
Additional documentation ............................................................ 287
About tuning VxVM ................................................................... 287
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