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Recovery Manager for Oracle User’s Guide

■Resynchronizes the Recovery Catalog to update with newly generated archive logs if the virtual copy is to be backed up using Oracle RMAN.

■Creates a virtual copy for the archive log destination virtual volumes.

NOTE: If the virtual copy is to be backed up using Oracle RMAN, a Recovery Catalog must have been created and configured prior to running this utility. For an RAC database, archive log destinations of all RAC instances must be on shared storage (same cluster file systems or same ASM disk groups).

2.6.3 The Virtual Copy Display Utility

3PAR Recovery Manager’s display utility (vcdba_display) displays database virtual copies along with other information including creation time, type, status, and backup status.

A virtual copy's type can be either Online, Offline, Datafile, or Archlog.

■An Online virtual copy indicates that the virtual copy for the database was created while it was OPEN (online).

■An Offline virtual copy indicates that the virtual copy for the database was created while it was CLOSED (offline).

■A Datafile virtual copy indicates that the virtual copy for the database was created while it was OPEN (online) and contains only datafiles (no archive log destination).

■An Archlog virtual copy indicates that the virtual copy was created for archive log destination only.

A virtual copy's status can be either Available, Removed, Mounted, Mounted(P), or

Database.

■Available status indicates that the virtual copy exists and is not currently mounted or cloned.

■Removed status indicates that the virtual copy is removed.

■Mounted status indicates that the virtual copy is currently mounted.

■Mounted(P) status indicates that the virtual copy is partially mounted.

■Database status indicates that a database has been cloned using the virtual copy.

A virtual copy's backup status can be either Y or N, where Y indicates that the virtual copy has been backed up and N indicates that the virtual copy has not been backed up.

Recovery Manager Utilities

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