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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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HADR: Ability to take incremental backups on either host and maintain the incremental chain for restore

In an HADR environment it is not possible to restore / recover the database with backups which are taken from both sites of the HADR cluster (after takeovers). You have to use the backups from the one site or from the other site. You can't mix the...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

Allow for the parallel restore of multiple different db2 tablespaces when Incremental Backups are present

Refer to Case TS000107666 for more info. Allow for the restore of multiple db2 tablespaces in parallel when Incremental Backups are present. Parallel tablespace restore with incremental backups should accommodate: rebuild db restore (with subset o...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 should use the HWM value instead of total allocation for restores on AUTO storage dbs

This is general problem for db2 restore with automatic storage environments. The redirected restore requires total space allocated on source DB tablespaces instead of traditional HWM space requirements. This increases the space requirements on the...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
11 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Rewind the current database from logs

Opposite to roll forward, it will be great to have the possibility to perform a rewind of a database (in roll-forward state or normal one), to a previous state with the logs. It will be like uncommit, or a general rollback.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Encrypted backup information in DB_HISTORY table

Currently there is no information on backup file is encrypted or not in DB_HISTORY table. Would like to see column indicating db backup entry is of encrypted db and backup file is indeed encrypted.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry to overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations is required.

Like DB2_LOAD_COPY_NO_OVERRIDE a registry is required which overrides NONRECOVERABLE Load operations to a defined value, because for data center operations any Load operation is critical.DB2_LOAD_NONRECOVERABLE_OVERRIDE=COPY YES USE TSM and DB2_LO...
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

2G limitation in Db2 utility heap size allocation

If the number of buffers and buffer size are not user specified in the BACKUP DB command then Db2 limits the utility heap size allocation to 2G. Please remove this cap to allow for higher default allocation of the utility heap size which in turn s...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow DROP db in QUIESCE mode

In a shared instance, (multiple DBs serving different applications) its almost impossible to DROP a database, without having to shutdown the entire Instance. In order to drop the database, it must be deactivated, otherwise it fails. So, if ...
over 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration