Database systems are among the most important and challenging environments to manage. Maintaining data availability, while simultaneously performing backup processing is not a trivial challenge. Even more importantly, when data must be restored, it must be done quickly. As data volumes grow and maintenance windows shrink the ability to rapidly backup and restore a large database is coming even more essential. IBM and VERITAS recently conducted a joint study measuring the backup and restore performance of a large IBM DB2 database.
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