Using Recovery Management for DB2

This section highlights the most useful and unique features of the BMC Recovery Management for DB2 solution and presents suggestions for using these features to meet your goals.

Note

The components of the BMC Recovery Management for DB2 solution include hundreds of features that enable you to customize your backup and recovery strategies to your needs. Review the documentation for the components to become familiar with the powerful functionality available to you.

The table lists the tasks that you perform with the BMC Recovery Management for DB2 solution to prepare for recovery and indicates where to find information about each task.

Recovery Management tasks

	Task	Reference
Prepare to Use the Recovery Management Solution (Typically you perform these preparatory tasks only once or sporadically.)
	Install and customize the Recovery Management solution.	Installing and customizing the solution
	Set subsystem-level default options using the RECOVERY MANAGER online interface.	Setting subsystem-level options
Create Groups
	Create balanced groups of all objects in the subsystem. Use these groups for disaster recovery or full subsystem recovery.	Creating subsystem groups
	Create application groups. Use these groups for local application recovery or for prioritized disaster recovery.	Creating application groups
	Set group-level options if necessary.	Setting group-level options
	Create application groups for migration of related data.	Moving data with a migration file
Back Up Data for Local Recovery
	Revalidate the subsystem or application groups.	Activate mirroring support
	Generate JCL to back up resources that will be required for a local application recovery.	Backing up resources for local recovery
	Create migration files in preparation for moving data for testing, development or data mining.	Moving data with a migration file
Perform Local Recoveries
	Revalidate the application groups, specify a recovery point, and generate recovery JCL.	Activate mirroring support
	Specify the backout-to-forward recovery method.	Backout to forward recovery
	Specify the automatic index-recovery-to-rebuild method.	Automatic index recovery to rebuild
	Specify inflight resolution recovery to a timestamp or logpoint.	Inflight resolution technology
	Perform drop recoveries.	Automated drop recovery
	Recover to snapshot copies.	Instant Snapshot recovery
	Recover to a log mark.	Recovery to a log mark
	Perform a volume recovery.	Volume recovery
Prepare for Disaster Recovery
	Make copies of the subsystem or application groups that you created previously.	Create copies of business applications
	Create copies of the RECOVERY MANAGER tables and repositories.	Create copies of repositories
	Create copies of the DB2 catalog and directory.	Create copies of the DB2 catalog and directory
	Establish a recovery point, make copies of the archive logs, and generate JCL for system resource recovery.	Prepare system resources
	If time has passed since the application copies were made, revalidate the groups for recoverability.	Revalidate groups
	Generate the JCL to recover all application data.	Generate application recovery JCL
	Migrate data to test, development or warehouse subsystems using migration files.	Moving data with a migration file
Test Recovery Strategies
	Perform disaster recovery simulation and estimation.	Performing simulation and estimation
	Perform local recovery simulation.	Simulation
	Evaluate data collected during actual, simulated, and estimated disaster recovery.	Evaluate disaster recovery data
Miscellaneous Tasks (Typically, you perform these tasks on an as-needed basis.)
	Make Online Consistent Copies for data migration tasks	Online consistent copies

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