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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Are sparse files supported by Db2

During a Restore of sparse files - where a large file is allocated, but is not fully created physically (preparation and population of many of the underlying blocks is deferred until they are needed)
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

SQL2080N Snapshot Backup Failed Unique Volume Issue

No description provided
almost 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 6 Not under consideration

Backup Db2 to on premisses S3 API devices (ie. EMC ECS)

Backup Db2 databases to low cost object storage devices such as EMC ECS using the S3 API. The current implementation of the S3 interface only works for a small list of known S3-style endpoints. (ie....s3.amazonaws.com, softlayer.net). This would ...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

NX842 hardware accelerated backup and log file compression for PPCLE

NX842 HW accelerated backup and log file compression is available on AIX. Why is it not available on PPCLE. All recent Linux distrubutions has kernel support for accessing this hardware accelerator.
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 Not under consideration

Rollforward to subsecond (ms, ns)

Rollforward to a timestamp with the following format YYYY-MM-DD-hh.mm.ss.nnnnnnn
almost 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

New ARCHIVE LAG TARGET parameter request.

DB2 doesn't have the parameter which will ensure that each archived log file contains no more than n seconds of changes (like Oracle's ARCHIVE_LAG_TARGET), for example, 1800 seconds. So, if DB2 will fill up the log file before the expiration of 18...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

RECOVER the database into the Alternate location.

We have a lot of cases when we need to RECOVER the database to the alternate location/paths. The RECOVER command doesn't support the relocation of the database.
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Online Backup compatability improvements request.

DB2 LUW still has a numerous commands/statements which are not supported with the ONLINE backup; (and there is no progress through the years):http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/db2luw/v9r7/topic/com.ibm.db2.luw.admin.ha.doc/doc/c0021554.htmlhttp://...
almost 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

automatic maintenance backup -> more backup options(RIMS)

My customer asked how he can configure the automatic maintenance backup in detail (for example PARALLELISM or BUFFERS). It seems that this is NOT possible at the moment. You can only configure some simple options like the target path for example, ...
about 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Logical Backup

Create “loadable” files foe objects rather than table space dumps. Only base table contents, no indexes
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration