Online backup of Tomcat and DB2?
Accepted answer
Using an online backup is not advised. There have been issues reported with corrupted data when online back up has been used (in particular, Oracle datapump). See (https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/136109, https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/86958)
Here is a 3.0 article that confirms the server should be shutdown before performing back up:
https://jazz.net/library/article/543#Backup_and_Restoration_of_Jazz
Martha
Jazz L3 Developer
Here is a 3.0 article that confirms the server should be shutdown before performing back up:
https://jazz.net/library/article/543#Backup_and_Restoration_of_Jazz
Martha
Jazz L3 Developer
A customer wants to know if it is possible to back up the Jazz repository while it is online.
One other answer
Online DB backup is less disruptive, and thus providing the best option, however it is also more difficult to achieve depending on the DB vendor (see below), and therefore offline backups are sometimes suggested to reduce complexity.
For DB2, the online backup tool is providing excellent transactional support. See http://jazz.net/library/techtip/98.
Note that you should ALSO backup all disk files that are located on the application servers, such as configuration files and indexes, the latters can be recreated but may take a long time.
For DB2, the online backup tool is providing excellent transactional support. See http://jazz.net/library/techtip/98.
Note that you should ALSO backup all disk files that are located on the application servers, such as configuration files and indexes, the latters can be recreated but may take a long time.