BACKUP DATABASE

[Stanley Sinclair]

For years I have been hoping for a native db2 solution which
compresses data on BACKUP DATABASE. (Using Windows.) I have heard
that it will happen, but has anyone enough chutzpa to say if it will
happen in my working lifetime (I'm 61 and live dangerously)?

Stan

[Ian]

Stanley Sinclair wrote:

For years I have been hoping for a native db2 solution which
compresses data on BACKUP DATABASE. (Using Windows.) I have heard
that it will happen, but has anyone enough chutzpa to say if it will
happen in my working lifetime (I'm 61 and live dangerously)?

Stan

It was introduced in Fixpack 4. You can now say,

backup database sample to /tmp compress

Restore will automatically uncompress the backup if it was compressed
on backup.
This is documented in the Release Notes for FP4.

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[Mark A]

> Stanley Sinclair wrote:

For years I have been hoping for a native db2 solution which
compresses data on BACKUP DATABASE. (Using Windows.) I have heard
that it will happen, but has anyone enough chutzpa to say if it will
happen in my working lifetime (I'm 61 and live dangerously)?

Stan

It was introduced in Fixpack 4. You can now say,

backup database sample to /tmp compress

Restore will automatically uncompress the backup if it was compressed
on backup.
This is documented in the Release Notes for FP4.

Not yet supported by the Control Center (which can generate and submit
commands) but as mentioned, it does work in FP4.

[Tomas Hallin]

"Mark A" <[e-mail]> wrote in message news:<Ut*****************@news.uswest.net>...

Stanley Sinclair wrote:

For years I have been hoping for a native db2 solution which
compresses data on BACKUP DATABASE. (Using Windows.) I have heard
that it will happen, but has anyone enough chutzpa to say if it will
happen in my working lifetime (I'm 61 and live dangerously)?

Stan

It was introduced in Fixpack 4. You can now say,

backup database sample to /tmp compress

Restore will automatically uncompress the backup if it was compressed
on backup.
This is documented in the Release Notes for FP4.

Not yet supported by the Control Center (which can generate and submit
commands) but as mentioned, it does work in FP4.

Assuming you specify your own compress library. The manual states
that if you don't it will use DB2's library, but that doesn't always
work:

APAR= IY51590 SER=
LIBDB2COMPR.SO LIBRARY IS NOT INSTALLED WHEN APPLYING FP4 WHICH DOES
NOT
ALLOW THE COMPRESS OPTION TO WORK ON 64BIT INSTANCES

/T

Tomas Hallin
Robert Half International
Pleasanton, CA