Creating a hot (online) backup using Veritas System Recovery

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
If a cold or a warm backup is not possible in your organization, create a hot (or online) backup for backing up non-VSS-aware databases.
Veritas System Recovery takes a crash consistent recovery point. Such a recovery point is equivalent to the state of a system that was running when the power failed. A database that can recover from this type of failure can be recovered from a crash consistent recovery point.
To create a hot backup
  • Use Veritas System Recovery to create a recovery point without the need to stop or restart the database.
Veritas System Recovery instantaneously snaps a virtual volume recovery point from which the recovery point is created.
See About backing up databases using Veritas System Recovery.