Thanks, that looks good enough to take care of the backup/restore side of things. do you have anything for regular maintanence?
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Federico Voges wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:32:17 -0300, Federico Voges wrote: > > >On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:36:47 -0500 (EST), Net Llama! wrote: > > > >>I've just inherited a DB2 server (on linux) that has never been backed up, > >>or had any maintanence performed on it. I'm fairly green in the DB2 > >>realm, and was wondering if anyone had any pointers on the easiest means > >>of dumping/backing-up the DB (and then how to restore from said dump), and > >>also if there are any maintanence or performance improvements that i could > >>institute as well? URLs will be good too. > >> > >>thanks! > >> > > > >I haven't used DB2 for about 5 years. And that was DB2/2.... but it > >used to have good online docs. If you have the install CDs, then you > >should have all the info you need there. > > > >If not, I have a couple of trial CDs from developerWorks. I can tar the > >docs direcotries and send it to you if you like. > > > > Just grabbed one of the CDs and found this: > > |42.37 Online Help for Backup and Restore Commands > > |Incorrect information appears when you type db2 ? backup. |The correct > output is: > > |BACKUP DATABASE database-alias [USER username [USING password]] > |[TABLESPACE (tblspace-name [ {,tblspace-name} ... ])] [ONLINE] > |[INCREMENTAL [DELTA]] [USE TSM [OPEN num-sess SESSIONS]] | > |TO dir/dev [ {,dir/dev} ... ] | LOAD lib-name [OPEN num-sess > SESSIONS]] > |[WITH num-buff BUFFERS] [BUFFER buffer-size] [PARALLELISM n] > |[WITHOUT PROMPTING] > > |Incorrect information appears when you type db2 ? |restore. The > correct output is: > > |RESTORE DATABASE source-database-alias { restore-options | CONTINUE | > ABORT }"; > | > |restore-options:"; > | [USER username [USING password]] [{TABLESPACE [ONLINE] |"; > | TABLESPACE (tblspace-name [ {,tblspace-name} ... ]) [ONLINE] |"; > | HISTORY FILE [ONLINE]}] [INCREMENTAL [ABORT]]"; > | [{USE TSM [OPEN num-sess SESSIONS] |"; > | FROM dir/dev [ {,dir/dev} ... ] | LOAD shared-lib"; > | [OPEN num-sess SESSIONS]}] [TAKEN AT date-time] [TO > target-directory]"; > | [INTO target-database-alias] [NEWLOGPATH directory]"; > | [WITH num-buff BUFFERS] [BUFFER buffer-size]"; > | [DLREPORT file-name] [REPLACE EXISTING] [REDIRECT] [PARALLELISM n]"; > | [WITHOUT ROLLING FORWARD] [WITHOUT DATALINK] [WITHOUT PROMPTING]"; > > You should be able to backup to a tape using the db2 command > > Federico Voges > Socio gerente > > Intrasoft > Malabia 2137 14 A > (1425) Buenos Aires > Argentina > > Te/Fax: 54-11-4833-5182 > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.intrasoft.com.ar > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP SDK 3.0 > > iQA/AwUBPl+sEhRcJRaVKt4XEQJ9fwCfXJJefJkFRUJpC3k6lZTULjm7o+IAnivb > 6eWGxPrCKtv/nw+TAaBecOA6 > =N8xG > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo http://netllama.ipfox.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users