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Using Checkpoints and Storage Rollback with Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC

  Note   Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC only supports the SFDB features described in this guide.

Veritas Storage Checkpoint enables efficient backup and recovery of Oracle databases. Storage Checkpoints can also be mounted, allowing regular file system operations to be performed or secondary databases to be started. This chapter describes Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback and how to use them through Storage Foundation 5.0 for Oracle RAC.

Topics covered in this chapter include:

• Storage Checkpoints and Storage Rollback concepts
• Determining space requirements for Storage Checkpoints
• Performance of Storage Checkpoints
• Backing up and recovering the database using Storage Checkpoints
• Cloning the Oracle instance using dbed_clonedb
• Guidelines for Oracle recovery