DB2 Notes

Everything You Wanted to Know About DB2 Universal Database Processes

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/db2/library/techarticle/0304chong/0304chong.html

Replication options, pros and cons

• HADR - real time. no latency. one side is unavailable to bind to. manual failover
• Q Replication - Automatic failover. Latency. Best Performance
• SQL Replication - automatic. high latency

Online backups require a rollforward (LOG Retain) option enabled. Once it is enabled a one time offline backup is required.

Logs location

look in the instance owner home folder
/home/db2inst1/sqllib/db2dump/db2dump.log

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