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Restricting database backup file size

Is there a way to limit the size of a database backup file (instead of one
huge file to have several smaller ones)? The command does not seem to have
any suitable options, as far as I can see.
Nov 12 '05 #1
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"Pekka Henttonen" <NO************ *********@kolum bus.fi> wrote in message
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Is there a way to limit the size of a database backup file (instead of one
huge file to have several smaller ones)? The command does not seem to have
any suitable options, as far as I can see.


You can specify multiple directories for the backup image, and DB2 will
split it that way. Not sure if that will work for you the way you want it
to.
Nov 12 '05 #2
"Mark A" <ma@switchboard .net> wrote in message news:<qn******* **********@news .uswest.net>...
You can specify multiple directories for the backup image, and DB2 will
split it that way. Not sure if that will work for you the way you want it
to.


When multiple paths are provided, the backup utility does not enforce
a perfectly even distribution of data across all of the files. I've
taken backups where four paths were specified: two on RAID1+0, and two
on regular disks, and the files on the RAID arrays were bigger,
presumably because they took less time to write their extents.

Fred
Nov 12 '05 #3

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