Re: ADVM volumes metadata backup

From: Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2012 17:22:56 +0200
Message-ID: <CAGJBphTs1T-KWvcwkWn3BSEEh14e4UZgtpoE9udAFE4zZAVYyA_at_mail.gmail.com>



Hi Fuad,

from OracleŽ Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2):

Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) volume and file system information is not backed up.

Dimitre

On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
> Would that be covered under te md_backup command in asmcmd
>
> Fuad
>
>
> On May 9, 2012, at 10:16 AM, "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I mean logical volume metadata: device name and size, not the content
>> of the filesystem.
>> I believe the snapshot is a read only copy of the file system's content.
>>
>> If you loose a disk (or a group of disks) that contains one (or more) Oracle
>> ADVM volumes (the devices you see in /dev/asm/), you'll have to
>> restore their definitions before restoring the filesystem structures,
>> or I am missing something?
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Dimitre
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Prashant Kumar
>> <oracleideas.wordpress_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I suggest you look at acfs snapshot , this allows you to restore metadata
>>> i.e. structure as well as data.
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