Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide
- Introduction to NetBackup for DB2
- Installing NetBackup for DB2
- Configuring NetBackup for DB2
- Overview of NetBackup for DB2 configuration
- About permissions for NetBackup for DB2 log files (UNIX)
- About configuring a backup policy for DB2
- About adding backup selections to a DB2 policy
- Configuring an application backup schedule
- Example application backup schedule
- Configuring automatic backup schedules
- Example automatic backup schedule
- About schedule properties
- NetBackup for DB2 backup types
- Performing a manual backup
- Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management
- 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
- Keywords for the db2.conf file
- NetBackup for DB2 environment variables
- Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for DB2
- About NetBackup for DB2 templates and shell scripts
- Performing backups and restores of DB2
- NetBackup for DB2 backup overview
- About backups from the NetBackup master server
- About user-directed backups
- Using the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface to browse DB2 resources
- About browsing DB2 backup images with bplist
- Performing a database restore
- About an alternate restore
- Using Snapshot Client with NetBackup for DB2
- NetBackup for DB2 with Snapshot Client features
- About NetBackup for DB2 with Snapshot Client operations
- About the sequence of a NetBackup for DB2 backup operation with Snapshot Client methods
- About the sequence of a NetBackup for DB2 restore operation with Snapshot Client methods
- About database objects supported by advanced backup methods
- About multistreaming and DB2 snapshot backups
- About symbolic links and DB2 backups and restores (UNIX)
- NetBackup for DB2 stream-based operations
- NetBackup for DB2 file-based operations
- Example: multiple sessions for a DB2 snapshot backup
- About configuring Snapshot Client with NetBackup for DB2
- Configuration requirements for snapshot backups with NetBackup for DB2
- Configuring a snapshot policy for NetBackup for DB2
- About configuring the db2.conf for a snapshot policy
- Restoring NetBackup for DB2 from a snapshot backup
- About restoring individual files from a NetBackup for DB2 snapshot backup
- About NetBackup for DB2 restores of volumes and file systems using snapshot rollback
- Performing a NetBackup for DB2 point-in-time rollback restore from a SnapVault backup (UNIX)
- Performing a snapshot rollback restore from the Java or Windows interface
- Performing a snapshot rollback restore from the command line
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for DB2 rollback restores
- About configuring NetBackup for DB2 block-level incremental backups on UNIX
- How BLI works with NetBackup for DB2 (UNIX)
- About the Storage Checkpoint facility and NetBackup for DB2
- Configuration requirements for BLI backups with NetBackup for DB2
- Storage Checkpoint configuration on the NetBackup for DB2 client
- Configuring policies for BLI backups with NetBackup for DB2
- BLI incremental backup options using NetBackup for DB2
- About Snapshot Client effects
- Performing NetBackup for DB2 backups with Snapshot Client methods
- Performing NetBackup for DB2 restores with Snapshot Client methods
- Troubleshooting NetBackup for DB2
- NetBackup debug logs and reports
- Enabling the debug logs for a NetBackup for DB2 client automatically (Windows)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (Windows)
- Enabling the debug logs manually (UNIX)
- About the NetBackup for DB2 log files
- Setting the debug level on a Windows client
- Setting the debug level on a UNIX client
- About NetBackup server reports
- Minimizing timeout failures on large database restores
- Minimizing the loading and unloading of tapes for database backups
- Use the NET_BUFFER_SZ file to speed up a slow restore
- About false restore failures reported in the activity monitor
- About the error message codes
- Delays in completion of backup jobs
- Appendix A. Configuration for a DB2 EEE (DPF) environment
- Appendix B. Using NetBackup for DB2 with SAP®
- Appendix C. Register authorized locations
- Index
Recovering a DB2 database - Restoring archive logs
You can use the procedure in this section if you need to restore the archive logs before you perform the roll-forward.
Use the procedure in this section to restore the archive logs manually if the following situations exist:
If the archive logs are not in the standard locations. When this situation exists, NetBackup cannot perform a seamless restore of DB2. You may have moved one or more of the needed archive logs to secondary storage such as tape, network storage, or some other location. For example, if ARCFUNC COPY is in effect and the old archive logs were moved to tape, perform procedure in this section.
If ARCFUNC COPY was in effect in the db2.conf file at the time the archive logs were backed up and the ARCDIR and RETDIR parameters specify two different locations.
If PARTITIONTYPE RAW was in effect in the db2.conf file for some (not all) of the archive log backups.
For more information about the DB2 commands, see your DB2 documentation.
To restore a DB2 database when the archive logs are in a non-standard location
- Restore the database.
Issue the DB2 RESTORE DATABASE command to restore the database itself. For example:
Windows: db2 restore db db_name load install_path\NetBackup\bin\nbdb2.dll
where db_name is the name of the DB2 database you are to restore.
UNIX: db2 restore db db_name load /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/lib
Where:
db_name
Name of the DB2 database.
lib
Full path to the NBDB2 library.
- Use NetBackup to browse the archive logs.
If a restore requires log files that are backed up from a file system and log files that are backed up from a raw device, retrieve the logs from the file system manually.
You can use the Backup, Archive, and Restore interface or the bplist command to browse the archive logs and find those missing from the restore directories.
If PARTITIONTYPE RAW is specified in the db2.conf file, the user exit program looks for only those logs when you perform the restore. The missing logs are those that were written when PARTITIONTYPE RAW was not in effect.
- Use operating system commands to copy the missing archive logs to the correct locations in your operating system. For example:
On Windows, use your mouse to copy the files from one location to another.
On UNIX, use the cp command.
If ARCFUNC COPY is in effect and the ARCDIR and RETDIR parameters specify different locations, copy the logs in the ARCDIR directory to the RETDIR directory. If ARCDIR and RETDIR specify the same location, you do not have to take any action. If some of the log files have been moved to secondary storage, restore these files to the RETDIR directory.
- Use NetBackup to restore the archive logs.
Use either the NetBackup Backup, Archive, and Restore interface or the bprestore command. For example:
Windows: bprestore install_path\vedb2\db2\v8\db2V82d\NODE0000\SQL0001\SQLOGDIR\S00009.LOG
UNIX: bprestore /vedb2/db2/v8/db2V82d/NODE0000/SQL0001/SQLOGDIR/S00009.LOG
- Bring the database online.
When the roll-forward is initiated, DB2 sends a request to NetBackup to restore the log files it needs. DB2 then reapplies the transaction information in the archive logs since the last full backup was performed. DB2 brings back the database online.
For example, you can use the following command options if PARTITIONTYPE RAW was not specified when any of the log files were backed up:
db2 rollforward db sample to end of logs and stop
The ROLLFORWARD DATABASE command issues messages if it cannot locate all the archive log files it needs. If you receive these messages, browse and restore the missing archive log files, and issue the ROLLFORWARD DATABASE command again.
After the database is successfully restored, the ROLLFORWARD DATABASE command restores and reapplies the transactions that are recorded in the archive log files since the last backup was performed. For example, if the backup image was created 10 days ago and restored today, the log files are used to restore transactions that occurred after the backup.