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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Db2
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 11, 2015

DB2 should check if there are any errors in the history file for(RIMS)

Headline cont... the relevant backup before the restore operation is started Description: Customer canceled/aborted a backup (kill against the vendor process) of his database after some hours (the reason is not relevant for this problem). The incomplete backup image was stored in netbackup and they forgot to delete it. The next day he restored this backup image by mistake (from netbackup). The strange thing was that the restore process didn�t checked that the image was incomplete. Instead of it started until the customer found out the mistake by himself (which was after some hours). list history snippet -> ********************* --------------------------------------------------Comment: DB2 BACKUP P91 ONLINE Start Time: 20140210020046 End Time: 20140210171002 EID: 174996 Location: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/nbdb2.sl64 SQLCA Information sqlcaid : SQLCA sqlcabc: 136 sqlcode: -1224 sqlerrml: 0 sqlerrmc: sqlerrp : sqlubPol sqlerrd : (1) 0 (2) 0 (3) 0 (4) 0 (5) 0 (6) 0 sqlwarn : (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) sqlstate: Now customer had two questions:1) Doesn�t DB2 check the backup image for his integrity at the beginning of a restore process? 2) Why DB2 does not make a 'quick' check in the history file if there are any kind of errors for the relevant backup file and if YES directly abort the restore operation? In customer�s situation there was a sqlcode: -1224 message for the relevant backup.ACTION_TAKEN:************* Regarding question 1)Received feedback from the development that we don�t check the backup at the beginning of a restore operation. To validate first, you would need to download the entire image for every sequence which you might not even have enough disk space to do and would be a huge performance hitCustomer is OK with this, so this question is answered. Regarding question 2)L2 confirmed that DB2 does NOT check the recover history file BEFORE that restore is started. So the main request is: DB2 should check if there are any errors in the history file for the relevant backup (as it was in customer�s situation) before the restore operation is started.