Restoration of backup done using Split-Mirror Disk in SAP

Hi,
  I need to the DR activity tomorrow.
Its an Oracle database. We are doing the Split-Mirror backup of Prod. db on QA server.
I need to do the restore part. From where the restore script need to be given QA or Prod.
What are the changes I need to do in the util file for the restore to work.
Regards
Amit.

Ashok,
HDS has in there own lab was able to use shadow image to create a copy of the ASM disk and present it to another server. HDS has not worked with Oracle to produce a Certified copy of the process. If you look on the ASM page you will see Netapp and EMC are just a few that have been Certified. I also have put ask HDS to work with oracle to allow us to use this feature.
Al

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