Creating a manual cold (offline) backup
A manual cold (or offline) backup ensures that all database transactions are committed to the hard disk. You can then use either Veritas System Recovery or the Veritas System Recovery Disk to create the recovery point, and then restart the database.
The following table summarizes the steps for creating a cold backup manually using Veritas System Recovery or Veritas System Recovery Disk.
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Table: Creating a cold back manually
| Step | Action | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Step 1 | Stop the database | Manually stop the database you want to back up. |
| Step 2 | Create a recovery point | Create a recovery point using either Veritas System Recovery or the Veritas System Recovery Disk. |
| Do one of the following: | ||
| - Use Veritas System Recovery to run a backup immediately using the Run Backup or One-time Backup feature. | ||
| - Use the Veritas System Recovery Disk to create a one time cold backup. | ||
| Step 3 | Restart the database | Manually restart the database anytime after the recovery point progress bar appears in the Monitor page of the console. |
| While the database is restarted, the actual recovery point is immediately created from the virtual volume recovery point. |
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