HP StoreServ Application Suite for Oracle Media manual About the Recovery Manager Repository

Recovery Manager for Oracle User’s Guide

Hereinafter, the term virtual copy is used to refer to a virtual copy of a database, rather than of a virtual volume.

2.2 About the Recovery Manager Repository

Information about virtual copies, database structures, and backup images (if backed up via Oracle RMAN and/or Veritas NetBackup) are stored in the 3PAR Recovery Manager repository when a virtual copy is created, or when a backup operation is performed. The information in the repository is used to manage virtual copies and to restore from a virtual copy backup image.

Some other Oracle-related files such as parameter files, password files, and control files are also saved in the Recovery Manager repository, along with the backup image information, for each virtual copy created.

The Recovery Manager repository is located in the following directory on the backup host:

/etc/3par/solutions/<primary_host>.ora.<oracle_sid>

where:

■<primary_host> is the host name of the primary host.

■<oracle_sid> is the database ID.

The following example displays the location of the Recovery Manager repository on the backup host for Oracle database instance test that is running on primary host Host1.

/etc/3par/solutions/Host1.ora.test

If the database is a Real Application Cluster (RAC) database, there will be multiple repositories, one for each RAC instance.

About the Recovery Manager Repository

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