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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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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.
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Automatic Archive Log Pruning when Non-Db2 Snapshots are used

Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data, OpenShift, k8s (a.k.a Db2U) primarily relies on k8s or Velero Volume Snapshots. However, Log archiving is enabled by default in Db2U. Therefore, even when automatic log pruning is enabled, since the backup happens outsid...
almost 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future 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

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
almost 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...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Read access during offline backup

Read access during offline backup
over 9 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.
almost 7 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 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 ...
almost 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

Allow RESTORE TO FUTURE POINT WITHOUT HAVING THE INCREMENTAL/DELTA AVAILABLE

We would very much appreciate the ability to RESTORE existing databases into a new database via a FULL ONLINE backup and SUBSEQUENTLY APPLY AN INCREMENTAL.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Future consideration