I should have expressed myself more clearly. Suspend is not necessary, it's only fast.
Basically,
with suspend, you don't put tablespaces into backup mode. You suspend, resync, split
and start aonther instance as if it crashed. As no I/O is going to disk, datafiles
aren't
fuzzy, so no recovery
Mladen,
Is the "ALTER SYSTEM SUSPEND" really necessary.
We've just implemented SnapClone mechanims for three Oracle DBs on
Hitachi and EMC SANs, We've been told that only ALTER TABLESPACE ... BEGIN
BACKUP
is necessary.
What we do is
1. Issue an ALTER TABLESPACE ... BEGIN BACKUP for all the tabl
