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DB2 Recovery Expert for Multiplatforms
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DB2 Recovery Expert for Multiplatforms

by Bart Steegmans, Mark Samson, Manish Shah
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 6m
English
IBM Redbooks
Content preview from DB2 Recovery Expert for Multiplatforms
Chapter 4. Managing recovery assets 51
seq A file extension consisting of a 3-digit sequence number.
4.1.4 Scheduling backups
DB2 Recovery Expert does not schedule backups. It is your responsibility to
schedule backups. You can do this using any scheduling tool, for example DB2
Script Center, cron (on AIX) or Windows NT Scheduler (on NT) like “at”.
The decision of how often to take backups must be made by the database
administrator. Several factors must be taken into account:
How important is it to reduce recovery time?
If it is essential that recovery is as quick as possible, then you should take
backups as often as possible. If recovery time is less important, then you can
reduce the frequency of backups.
If high speed recovery is important, ...
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