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This gives you several permutations to choose from when implementing a backup strategy:
Hot or cold backups of DB2
Full (“background”) or “no copy” versions of a local FlashCopy
Use of PPRC with or without a remote FlashCopy
Full or “nocopy” versions of a remote FlashCopy
We won’t describe every permutation, but we will discuss three. For clarity, we should mention
that a FlashCopy of your database should include both data and log files.
Beginning with version 7.2 of DB2, the ability to backup a database from a FlashCopy has
been added. This will provide the ability to offload DB2 backups from the primary system to
the secondary system, thus not impacting the production system at all except fo ...