Snapshot of file systems possible?

[Gino Castoldi_2]

Hi,

HP-UX 11.0 LVM VxFS 3.1

We are running OVO with Oracle
8.0.6. We would like to eliminate downtime on this production application when running backups. (We normally
do cold backups which means we shutdown the application and the Oracle database).

Is it possible to create a snapshot of the data using
VxFS or do we need other
products or is there other ways to do this?

10 points to any good answer.
Thank you Gino.

[Robert-Jan Goossens · Accepted solution]

Gino,

take a look at this link,

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/B2355-90742_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/51-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B2355-90742/00/00/51-toc.html&searchterms=snapshot&queryid=20020103-121706

Hope it helps,

Robert-Jan.

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

To create a snapshot one usually first
extends the number of mirror copies and then splits off the freshly
created mirror.

[Sergejs Svitnevs]

sorry.
You can use VERITAS Volume Manager.
Check this document.

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90026/B7961-90026_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90026/00/00/77-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B7961-90026/00/00/77-toc.html&searchterms=vxfs%7csnapshot&queryid=20030317-050544

Regards,
Sergejs

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

Gino,

here is answer of A. Clay Stephenson about snapshot backups. Take a look.

http://bizforums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/0,,0x509284534efbd5118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Robert-Jan.