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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring NetBackup for DB2
  4. About backing up archive log files with the user exit program
  5. Configuring a policy to archive the archive logs
Veritas NetBackup™ for DB2 Administrator's Guide

Configuring a policy to archive the archive logs

This topic describes how to create a policy to archive the NetBackup DB2 archive log entries in the ARCDIR directory. Follow these instructions if you want to use the user exit program with the ARCFUNC COPY command.

When NetBackup performs an archive, it deletes the online files after they are backed up successfully.

For more information on user archive schedules, see the NetBackup Administrator's Guide, Volume I.

You do not need to perform this procedure if you use the VENDOR method to back up your archive log files.

To configure a policy to back up the archive logs

  1. Log on to the master server as administrator (Windows) or root (UNIX).
  2. Start the NetBackup Administration Console .
  3. If your site has more than one master server, choose the one on which you want to add the policy.
  4. Create a new MS- Windows (Windows) or Standard (UNIX) policy type.
  5. Specify the attributes for the policy.
  6. On the Schedules tab, create a User Archive schedule.

    This schedule must encompass all of the time periods during which DB2 can call the user exit program.

    No backup selections list is necessary for this policy because it has a User Archive schedule. It is not an automatic schedule.

  7. Specify the clients to be backed up.

    The clients must have the following installed:

    • DB2

    • NetBackup for DB2

    If the client is installed in a DB2 cluster, add the virtual host name to the client list.

    Note:

    If you installed NetBackup on more than one node in the DB2 cluster, you must perform additional configuration. You must approve each valid Auto-Discovered Mapping that NetBackup discovers in your environment.

    See Reviewing the auto-discovered mappings in Host Management.

More Information

Creating a db2.conf file (vendor method)

Configuring a policy to back up the archive logs

Configuring a policy to back up the configuration files

About backing up archive log files with the user exit program

DB2 objects in the backup window

Configuring the logon account for the NetBackup Client Service for NetBackup for DB2

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