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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Page-level recovery request.

DB2 is not able to repair a single bad page, i.e. to perform a page-level recovery.This causes a downtime because the only solution is the execution of the OFFLINE procedures, like RESTORE/RECOVER/db2dart.
over 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Avoid SQL1246N for incremental backup

This sqlcode SQL1246N is send by DB2 during an incremental backup each time a new tablespace has been created and no full backup of this tablespace has been done. It shoud be more interesting to switch automatically for this tablespace from the in...
over 9 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Removing defunct Delta Backup images after automatic database backup image removal

We have automated backup options enabled (num_db_backups and rec_his_retentn both set). Our backup schedule takes a full backup on Sunday and a Delta every other day of the week. When a full backup image qualifies for removal, with reference to th...
about 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

DB2 online backup using Tivoli Storage Manager causes DB2 hang

Fix the online back freezing issue as described at http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21979921
almost 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

index based restore of a table space from backup image file

Want to restore the contents of a tablespace from a backup.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

BACKUP command option: ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (tablespace-name)

Customer has a huge number of tablespaces (f.e. 10000) and wants to do a tablespace backup of all tablespaces except of for example 3 tablespaces. We would like to do the following: $ db2 BACKUP DB myDB ALL TABLESPACES EXCEPT (unnecessary...
about 4 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Platform switch Windows-Linux using OFFLINE database backup image

A platform switch from Windows to Linux (or Linux to Windows), would be much easier if one can use the DB2 backup image itself. Not necessary between two different DB2 versions, and it doesn't have to be an online backup, and of course platforms a...
about 8 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Recover should better support offline backups

Recover should better support offline backups. Using a log archive mode database it is possible to restore an offline backup using recover. It is necessary to specify the 'End Time' of the offline backup, otherwise recover would choose an older ba...
over 6 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Restore Critical Files [only]

In case of a mistakenly deletion of files in/below the instance home directory of Db2 it should be possible to restore [only] these files/directories etc. At the moment if files/directories are mistakenly deleted, a complete database restore would...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 4 Not under consideration

Allow to exclude index pages from backup - recreate after restore

Db2 backup is saving all database objects regardless if the objects (especially indexes) could be re-created, because the objects contain just redundant data. Db2 already provides the DBM CFG parameter INDEXREC which configures when an invalid ind...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration