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Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 7, 2017

Auto-pruning for automatic DB2 Backups

The DB2 LUW automatic backup creation, which is enabled by the parameters AUTO_MAINT and AUTO_DB_BACKUP and configured by the 'AUTO_BACKUP' maintenance policy XML, currently does not consider the db2 automatic pruning functionality, configured by the parameters

 REC_HIS_RETENTN
 NUM_DB_BACKUP
 AUTO_DEL_REC_OBJ

Instead of this, the automatic backup feature deletes automatically old backup-images and receives e.g. just the last backup-image on disk.
1 MERGED

Enhance AUTO_DB_BACKUP backup image pruning rule

Merged
When enabling AUTO_DB_BACKUP you also enable backup image pruning which is process that is executed in addition and independent of the alternative automatic recovery object pruning controlled by parameters NUM_DB_BACKUPS, REC_HIS_RETENTN when AUTO...
over 1 year ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0