Defy Murphy's Law with DB2 Backup and Restore

urphy's Law states that if something can go wrong, it will. It is comforting to know that you can guard against at least some calamities. In the case of IBM® DB2® Universal Database, the mere notion of your database data being deleted or somehow corrupted might cause some sleepless nights. Thankfully, DB2 has built-in features for performing backups of your precious data. This 10-Minute Solution explains and demonstrates these features, which give you at least one less thing to worry about.

Requirements: The instructions in this 10-Minute Solution assume that you have a user on your machine named db2admin with a password of db2admin and the appropriate privileges: SYSADM, SYSCTRL, and SYSMAINT.

How do I ensure that the critical data stored in my DB2 database isn't lost forever when data loss or corruption occurs?



Use DB2's built-in backup and recovery features to recover critical data from loss or corruption.