Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Graphical User Interface Guide

■ Resynchronize snapshots to your database.
■ Resynchronize your database to a snapshot.
Database FlashSnap functionality is not supported on duplicated (cloned)
databases.
Creating a snapplan
A snapplan specifies snapshot scenarios for the Oracle database (such as online,
offline, and instant). The snapplan is used as a basis for creating a snapshot. You
must create and validate the snapplan before you can create the snapshot image.
■ You must be logged in as the Oracle database administrator.
■ The disk group must be version 110 or higher.
■ Persistent FastResync must be enabled.
■ To set up your snapplan for online snapshots, the database must
be in archive log mode.
Prerequisites
■ Database FlashSnap functionality is not supported on cloned
(duplicated) databases.
■ The snapplan name is user-defined.
■ Each entry in the snapplan is a line in parameter=argument
format.
See the dbed_vmchecksnap(1M) manual page for more
information.
Usage notes
To create a snapplan
1
Access the Create Snapplan wizard.
See “Accessing FlashSnap tasks in the Java GUI” on page 25.
2
Confirm the Oracle SID. This is a read-only field.
3
Enter the full path of the snapplan file.
4
Enter the name of the secondary host.
5
Enter the snapshot plex tag.
6
Click Next to continue.
The Validate/Modify Snapplan screen is displayed with default values set.
Managing snapshots using Database FlashSnap
Creating a snapplan
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