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IT-Funktionen - 09 Mar 2004 07:11 GMT

Hi,

I have defined a daily backup of my DB2 7.2 database. The backup is not
incremental, and every night Tivoli is configured to backup the disk on
which the DB2 backup is placed.

So my question is: Can I define a backup that overwrites the backup from the
previous day, so that the harddisk won't get filled up with backups? What is
the "correct" procedure?

Thanks,

Jakob

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Philip Nelson - 09 Mar 2004 14:05 GMT

> Hi,
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> Jakob

Jakob,

Since you have Tivoli Storage Manager, why don't you let TSM do the
management for you.

db2 "BACKUP DATABASE dbname USE TSM"

will send the backup straight to TSM.

The utility db2adutl will let you manage your backups within TSM (extract a
backup image, remove images older than a certain age etc.)

HTH

Phil Nelson
ScotDB Limited

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