Deployment Guide

● If DB2 archival logging (which enables online backups) is in use, archived transaction log files can
take lots of disk space. When taking a backup, archived log files will be included in the backup
images, and they can be deleted afterwards. 7BUtool.sh deletes the old archived log file
automatically, but by default it keeps log files of last 7 days. You can control how many days will
be kept by using -l option of the 7BUtool.sh utility.
● If the backup plan includes incremental online delta backups, by default the backup utility keeps
delta backups of last 7 days locally. You can control how many days will be kept by using -k
option of the 7BUtool.sh utility.
● If a remote storage server is in use, it must be verified that the server does not run out of disk
space. This means that older backup images must be deleted periodically on the server. In order
to automate deletion of old backup images you can use the cleanupOldBackups.sh script.
14.3.2Command arguments and options
Use -h option to show command help:
$ ./7BUtool.sh -h
Usage: 7BUtool.sh <backup directory1> [backup directory2] [backup directory3]
Options: -s <server> Name of this server (on which 7BUtool.sh is run).
-b <backup server> Address of the remote backup server. The server to
which the backup images are copied.
-u <username> User name on the remote backup server.
-d <directory> Backup directory on the remote backup server.
The directory to which the DB backup images
are copied over the network.
-o Do an online backup.
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