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Status Future consideration
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 25, 2022

Backup on HADR Standby

Backup consume resources in primary. If we offload backup in Standby then Primary can be easily served for application use alone . Currently we were able to take backup only in primary and all workloads along with Backup utilise CPU resources .If we have capability or feature to enable which allows Backup to run Standby then it will be easy for Primary server to foucs on application workloads alone.

Needed By Week
15 MERGED

DB2-LUW: Enable online backup of standby db

Merged
I have heard this multiple times: Why can't we do an online backup of the standby database (to disk, to TSM, to Commvault, to ....)? We want to avoid extra IO and CPU on the primary. Our standby does not look overloaded. At least an online backup ...
about 2 years ago in Db2 0 Future consideration