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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Components Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 3, 2018

RELATED IDEAS

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, db2rhist.asc and db2rhist.bak. Both of the history files are on the same file system. The history files are critical files used for database recovery as they contain information to recover the database.

My RFE is to request is to mirror the history file(s) to a different file system. The history files(s) would still exist in the same directory but could optionally be mirrored to a separate directory. If the file system or history files were lost a backup would exist on the other file system, assuming the files were mirrored. I am thinking you could create a new parameter in the database manager configuration file to enable mirroring and define the mirrored directory.

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