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

Creating a clone database with a snapshot
After having created a snapshot, you can use the snapshot to create a clone
database. The cloned database can be used for decision-making and testing that
cannot be done on your production database.
■ Make sure you have enough disk space to create a clone database
on your system.
■ You must have an existing snapshot.
Prerequisites
To create a clone database with a snapshot
1
Click the database object Oracle icon in the object tree. (You may need to
expand the tree view to find the icon.)
2
Access the Create Snapshot Database wizard.
See “Accessing FlashSnap tasks in the Java GUI” on page 28.
See “Accessing database tasks in the Web GUI” on page 35.
3
In the “connect as” section of the Create Snapshot Database wizard, enter
the local path to Oracle home. Then, enter your Unix user name, password.
4
For the primary database, enter the Oracle SID information.
5
Select whether you are recovering the database or restarting the database by
clicking the appropriate radio button.
Select Startup database if you are restarting a new snapshot database based
on a snapshot.
Select Restart database if you are restarting a snapshot database that has
already been created.
6
For the snapshot database, enter the new Oracle SID, Snapplan file, volume
name, Snapshot disk group name, and Relocate path in the appropriate fields.
To start an on-host snapshot database, the Relocate path is required. To start
an off-host snapshot database, the volume name field is required. You can
obtain this information by viewing the details after you create a snapshot. If
you did not retain the information from the snapshot creation, you can use
the dbed_vmchecksnap command or use Viewlog via the GUI to retrieve the
information.
See “Creating and Working with Snapplans Using dbed_vmchecksnap” in the
Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator's Guide.
81Managing snapshots using Database FlashSnap
Creating a clone database with a snapshot