How to use snapmanager to implement Disaster Recovery for Oracle database

Jephe Wu - http://linuxtecres.blogspot.com

Objective: use snapmanager for Oracle to backup production database to DR and restore from there
Environment: Oracle standalone database 11gR2 11.2.0.3 running in Oracle VM guest backed by Oracle VM server 3.1.1., use centralized netapp storage to store binary and database files.


Steps:

1. create the coresponding volumes in DR netapp for each volume in primary database

ssh -n netapp 'df -Ah'
ssh -n netapp 'df -h'
ssh -n netapp 'vol status -v volname'
ssh -n netapp 'qtree status'
ssh -n netapp 'rdfile /etc/rc'
ssh -n netapp 'rdfile /etc/exports'
ssh -n netapp 'rdfile /etc/quotas'

vol create volname aggr1  100g
snap reserve volname 0
snap sched volname 0 0 0

For binary, create default volume without disabling snap shot and schedule.

2. configuring snapmirror

if snapmirror is uninitialized, need to be in restricted mode first
vol restrict volname
snapmirror initialize -S src:vol dst:vol
snapmirror resync -S srv:vol dst:vol
snapmirror update dstvol

break it:

snapmirror quiesce
snapmirror break dstvolname

3. recover database
startup dr VM

restore control file volume snapshot  # use snap restore ....
restore coresponding snapshot for datafile volume
rman target /
rman> restore controlfile from 'put any one of backup controlfile name from snapshot here'
rman> startup mount;
rman> recover database
rman> alter database open resetlogs


4. for smo postscript to work
enable http and https admin on dr storage so that postscript for resync snapmirror will work

on dr netapp:
disable automatic snapmirror (in /etc/snapmirror.conf, use five dash )
ssh into netapp
dr> options httpd.admin.enable on
dr> options httpd.enable on



use tcpdump -nn host 10.1.30.2


snapdrive config list
snapdrive config set root password