Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for DB2
- Installing NetBackup for DB2
- Configuring NetBackup for DB2
- About configuring a backup policy for DB2
- About adding backup selections to a DB2 policy
- About backing up archive log files with the user exit program
- Configuring the run-time environment
- Creating a db2.conf file for use with the user exit program
- Creating a db2.conf file (vendor method)
- Configuring bp.conf files in a cluster environment
- About NetBackup for DB2 templates and shell scripts
- Performing backups and restores of DB2
- About user-directed backups
- Performing a database restore
- About an alternate restore
- Using Snapshot Client with NetBackup for DB2
- About NetBackup for DB2 with Snapshot Client operations
- Restoring NetBackup for DB2 from a snapshot backup
- About configuring NetBackup for DB2 block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- Configuring policies for BLI backups with NetBackup for DB2
- About Snapshot Client effects
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for DB2
- About the NetBackup for DB2 log files
- Appendix A. Configuration for a DB2 EEE (DPF) environment
- Appendix B. Using NetBackup for DB2 with SAP®
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
NetBackup for DB2 stream-based operations
Stream-based operations are the conventional method used by DB2 and NetBackup to backup and restore the database. Log archiving using the VENDOR method is also stream-based.
During a stream-based backup, the DB2 server processes (e.g. db2agent, db2bm, db2med) read the DB2 file contents into buffers. The stream of buffers is passed to NetBackup and transported to storage. At restore time, NetBackup fetches the buffers from storage and returns them to the DB2 server processes which write them back to the file system.
If the DB2 command line or NetBackup for DB2 template is configured to use multiple sessions, then there are multiple streams of buffers. Each stream of buffers is a unique application backup job and is cataloged as a unique backup image.
Figure: NetBackup for DB2 stream-based backup or restore represents a stream-based backup or restore.
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