Chapter 14. Developing Database Backup and Recovery Solutions

A power failure may hit your database system while it is busy processing. A user may accidentally drop a very important table that you really need. What can you do to ensure that the data in the database remains consistent even when processing has been interrupted by a power failure? How can you recover a table that has been accidentally dropped? DB2’s backup and recovery methods are designed to help you in these situations.

In this chapter you will learn about:

  • The concept of transaction logging and the various logging strategies

  • How to perform a database backup

  • How to perform a database restore

  • How to perform a roll forward operation

  • How log shipping works

  • How split mirroring works and how ...

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