Recovery models for DB2

The types of recovery you can use with geodatabases in DB2 are version recovery, which uses circular logging; roll-forward recovery, which uses archive logging; or high-availability disaster recovery (HADR).

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Be sure to recover all databases that make up the ArcSDE geodatabase when restoring an ArcSDE for DB2 for z/OS geodatabase.

To restore your geodatabase, you can use the RECOVER DATABASE command or the Restore Data wizard from DB2 Control Center. The geodatabase can be restored to an existing database or to a new database. The following are notes on recovering to a new database:

When you perform a full database recovery of a recoverable database, there can be no other connections to the database other than the connection that is made when the database is recovered. When a full database backup is restored, DB2 checks to be sure that all the table spaces referenced in the backup image are present in the database to which the data is being restored. (This could be an existing database or a new, empty database.) If it finds that a table space is missing or inaccessible, the recovery operation fails.

To avoid this, you can perform a redirected restore operation. This allows you to specify new table spaces to which you can restore table spaces from the backup image that were missing from the target database. For details on how to perform a redirected restore, consult your DB2 documentation.

If you are only restoring individual table spaces of a recoverable database, the database can remain online as long as users are not connected to the table spaces you are trying to restore.

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11/6/2014