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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM Determining the size of a DB2 backup object https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/determining-size-db2-backup-object describes a workaround for the missing functionality in db2adutl. It should be ab...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Truncate incompatible with online backup command

Db2 online backup for warehouse environments running longer depending on database size, online backup command have a lock incompatibility with Truncate table command which is says backup is not fully online. This should be one essential feature th...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Check log files during log archival

To detect as early as possible that there are storage issues or file system issues in log dir, checking the checksum of log files during log archival would help to identify issues early, fix the issue and allow to take a new backup to get database...
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Inclusion of Load Copy Images into the B/U image

DB2 includes the require logs but forgot about the load copy images required by roll forward to make the backup image complete for disaster recovery.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

db2adutl parallelism

Usually our Db2 backups to TSM are performed using parallelism, sometimes up to parallelism 10. Occasionally we restore a Db2 system in another operating center from where we have no access to the TSM server. In the source environment the Db2 ba...
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

BACKUP INCLUDE LOGS should add logs to backup image as soon as they are closed

Today the log files get added to backup image at end of backup, which could easily cause that log files need to be retrieved from archive that they can be added to backup image. Adding the log files as soon as possible would avoid time consuming a...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration

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

DB2 Recovery Expert access Backup and Logs directly over Vendor Library

Currently when doing Reports with the DB2 Recovery Expert, access to Backup and Logfiles over the Vendor Library (in our Case Commvault) is done on the managed Database itself. This is causing a high Performance impact on the System (Disk, Cpu and...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1