Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Voting disk Backup and Recovery

Voting disk manages node membership information and it is used by Cluster synchronization services demon (CSSD).

Backing up Voting Disks:-
Run the below command to back up the voting disk.
$ dd if=voting_disk_name of=backup_file_name
or
$ dd if=voting_disk_name of=backup_file_name bs=4k

Recovering Voting Disks:-
Run the below command to recover a voting disk
$ dd if=backup_file_name of=voting_disk_name

You can change the Voting Disk Configuration dynamically after the installation.
Please note that you need to run the command as “root”.

Run the below command to add a voting disk:
# crsctl add css votedisk_path

You can have upto 32 Voting disks.

Run the following command to remove a voting disk:
# crsctl delete css votedisk_path

Click here to learn Backup and Recovery of OCR

Regards,
Satishbabu Gunukua
http://www.oracleracexpert.com/

13 comments:

  1. Hi Satish,

    I like your blog very much. You explain the things very clearly and comprehensively.

    Thanks,
    Deepak Gupta

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  2. Hi satish, You did tremendous job, thanks a lot

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  3. do dd commad work in windows 2k3

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  4. but copy cmd will not work on common storage as we store our voting disks @ SAN/NAS as common storage area ..
    is dd an unix cmd ....
    there is a spl cmd i was asked in a interview for coping the voting disk when we confiure RAC in windows..

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  5. You can very well use "ocopy" command to backup vote disks which are on shared storage.

    It looks like they are using some backup software to backup vote disks.

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