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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Restore at table level

Mainly on auditing needs when you have to get some information from the past or when you need to recover just one table only its nowadays you have to do a complete restore. Would be good to have this feature.
almost 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Functionality already exists

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 8 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 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 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 3 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 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

db2 luw restore to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync()

db2 luw restore performance is very slow. The problem was identified and recommended solution is to avoid O_SYNC writes on the tablespace containers and perform a final fsync() From: David Sciaraffa Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 6:57 PMTo: R...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 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 ...
over 5 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Schema Transport in PureScale

Add Schema Transport Support in PureScale. Allow ESE to PS and PS to ESE across codepage transport at the schema level.
over 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

let db2adutl work cross-dbpartition on one LPAR, as it did before

Before DB2 11.5.8.0.1 db2adutl could work on different dbpartitions on the same LPAR.Now it throws an error that input database partition number/current database partition number are different, if DB2NODE is not explicitly set.db2adutl should be a...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 3 Is a defect

Ability to recover an individual table

We need the ability to recover an individual table faster. HPU does not work weel on VLDB databases as it does not support pipes and there is no indexing of tables within a TS in a backup image.
almost 10 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration