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Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover

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Change the backup name from ONLINE to semi-ONLINE as the onlines backups are not supported. Please see TS014902228

Online backup has many issues for db2 (TS014902228)
3 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Db2 LUW TSM incremental and/or delta backups from FlashCopy off-load server based backup

The Federal Financial Supervisory Authority of Germany (BaFin) uses the Spectrum Protect Snaphot (SPS, aka FlashCopy Manager, FCM) software to create Db2 FlashCopy Backups and to offload them to a backup system. From this backup system are Db2 bac...
11 months ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

Restore Diagnostic messages

When upgrading DB2 LUW from V10.5 to V11.5, restore got hung after processing 830G [ full backup data ] without any message DB2 Support team was contacted to troubleshoot the issue, finally, it appeared to be an file lock issue, DB2 appeared to be...
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

During rollforward to PIT from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database

During rollforward to point in time recovery from TSM, why does DB2 create the second LOGSTREAM0000 directory under the active log path of the database
over 2 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM

db2adutl to report the size of objects stored on TSM Determining the size of a DB2 backup object https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/determining-size-db2-backup-object describes a workaround for the missing functionality in db2adutl. It should be ab...
almost 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Are sparse files supported by Db2

During a Restore of sparse files - where a large file is allocated, but is not fully created physically (preparation and population of many of the underlying blocks is deferred until they are needed)
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 2 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

Parallelize the logs in the online backup image

If you have a large amount of transaction logs created during an online backup operation, and logs are include in the backup image, at the end of the backup Db2 adds the log files to the backup file. Right now it appears to be a serialized operati...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 0 Not under consideration

Verify OVERFLOWLOGPATH is valid at the BEGINNING and allow override in RESTORE DATABASE command.

When restoring a DB2/LUW database Db2 currently restores the database and then abneds if the OVERFLOWLOGPATH is invalid. A restore can take many hours and having the restore fail at the end of the restore wastes all those hours.
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 5 Not under consideration

Db2 should request logs in both Log Archive Method

When performing a roll forward, and the LOGARCHMETH1 is configured to a external mechanism like Netbackup, and LOGARCHMETH2 is a local disk, Db2 will ask the first method and wait for the log, even if it takes too long for retrieval. In this case,...
over 3 years ago in Db2 / Backup/Restore/ Rollforward/ Recover 1 Not under consideration