Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle 5.0 Graphical User Interface Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Creating a Storage Checkpoint
You can create a Storage Checkpoint that is:
offline
online
instant
If the database is online when the Storage Checkpoint is created, Storage
Foundation for Oracle switches the database to online backup mode before creating
the Storage Checkpoint. Once the Storage Checkpoint is created, Storage
Foundation for Oracle switches the database back to its normal operation mode.
For the instant option, the database should be online and it can be running in
either ARCHIVELOG or NOARCHIVELOG mode. You can only roll back the entire
database to an instant Storage Checkpoint. After the rollback is complete, you
need to perform Oracle database instance recovery. Rolling the database forward
is not supported; that is, you cannot apply archived redo logs.
In addition to creating a Storage Checkpoint, the GUI automatically backs up the
associated control files, initialization file, and log information. For example, you
have made a structural change to your database, and then you need to roll back
the database to a Storage Checkpoint that was created before the structural change.
The Storage Rollback would only be successful if you could also reconstruct the
database to the same structure that it was when the Storage Checkpoint was
created. You can recreate the previous database structure using the control files,
initialization file, and log information that were backed up when the Storage
Checkpoint was created.
Enable ARCHIVELOG mode before taking online Storage
Checkpoints.
See the chapter on using Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback
in the Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator's Guide.
Prerequisites
To create a Storage Checkpoint
1
Access the Create a Storage Checkpoint wizard.
See Accessing Storage Checkpoint tasks in the Java GUI” on page 27.
See Accessing database tasks in the Web GUI” on page 35.
2
Verify the Oracle SID, which is the Oracle System Identifier, for which you
are creating the Storage Checkpoint. This is a read-only field.
3
Select one of the following options:
To create an online Storage Checkpoint, click the Online button.
Managing Storage Checkpoints
Creating a Storage Checkpoint
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