VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Audience and Scope

The VERITAS® Point-In-Time Copy Solutions Administrator’s Guide

provides information about how to implement solutions for online

backup of databases and cluster-shareable ﬁle systems, for decision

support on enterprise systems, and for Storage Rollback of databases to

implement fast database recovery.

This guide is intended for experienced system administrators

responsible for installing, conﬁguring, and maintaining high-availability

clustered systems under the control of VERITAS software.

This guide assumes that you have a good understanding of the following

topics:

• The UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Linux or Solaris) operating system.

• UNIX (AIX, HP-UX, Linux or Solaris) system administration.

• Cluster hardware and its conﬁguration in enterprise installations

(for scenarios that use clusters).

• Volume management.

• Conﬁguration and administration of DB2, Oracle or Sybase

databases (for operating systems and scenarios that use these

databases).