Hi Fuad, from Oracle® Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2): Oracle Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System (Oracle ACFS) volume and file system information is not backed up. Dimitre On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Fuad Arshad <fuadar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Would that be covered under te md_backup command in asmcmd > > Fuad > > > On May 9, 2012, at 10:16 AM, "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I mean logical volume metadata: device name and size, not the content >> of the filesystem. >> I believe the snapshot is a read only copy of the file system's content. >> >> If you loose a disk (or a group of disks) that contains one (or more) Oracle >> ADVM volumes (the devices you see in /dev/asm/), you'll have to >> restore their definitions before restoring the filesystem structures, >> or I am missing something? >> >> >> >> Regards >> Dimitre >> >> >> On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Prashant Kumar >> <oracleideas.wordpress@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I suggest you look at acfs snapshot , this allows you to restore metadata >>> i.e. structure as well as data. >> -- >> //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >> >> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l