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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Read access during offline backup

Read access during offline backup
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Add NEWMIRRORLOGPATH option to the restore command

This should be a fairly simple change/addition and prevent the possibilty that the mirrorlogs end up in the old databases mirrorlogpath by misstake or during the time it takes for the administrator to do the change manually, since the change will ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Non-recoverable tables list after rollforward

Retrieving list of non-recoverable tables (Tables which undergone load with non recoverable option or not logged operations) from catalog views
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Mirror LUW Db2 history file

The RFE is to improve database integrity, backup and recovery. Db2 has a "history file" that tracks things such as backups, rollforward, log archive, etc. The history file exists in the database path (DBPATH) directory. There are two history files...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Tablespaces restore takes quite too long

I doubt that the concept for a tablespace restore includes reading all other tablespace blocks of the backup image.For me if i restore only a tablespace which is some 10% of the whole database the restore should consider that.
about 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Restore with a new table name

Add a new feature to allow to restore tablespaces with new names of tablespaces and tables
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

create new TS type called staging or workarea

Create a new Tablespace type called staging. Any objects in this TS will not be backed up or logged.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

During rollforward to PIT from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database

During rollforward to point in time recovery from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration