Re: RMAN & BCV/Flashcopy Question?

[Tim Gorman]

Gene,   The "Oracle9i RMAN User's Guide" provides instructions on this on page 9-18.   I don't think that the steps mentioning ALTER SYSTEM SUSPEND/RESUME and ALTER TABLESPACE BEGIN/END BACKUP are necessary if IBM Flashcopy can support splits of non-quiesced volumes (ask your AIX SA).  If it can, then only the steps involving CATALOG DATAFILECOPY and BACKUP/COPY DATAFILECOPY are relevant...   Hope this helps...   -Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Gene Sais To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:59 AM Subject: RMAN & BCV/Flashcopy Question? I plan on using a product from IBM called Flashcopy, similar to EMC's BCV (third mirror).  Typically, I put the tablespaces in hot backup via scripting before splitting the third mirror.  How can RMAN be used in a similar fashion?  Can RMAN put the db in a hot backup state so the third mirror can be split and then backed up to tape?   Thanks, Gene