Server database and recovery log configuration and tuning

How you configure and size the database and recovery logs is essential to IBM Spectrum® Protect performance.

Before you begin

The server records changes that are made to the database in the recovery log. The recovery log is used to maintain the database in a transactionally consistent state, and to maintain consistency across server startup operations. The recovery log is composed of an active log, an archive log, and optional logs, including the active log mirror and archive failover log. The following figure shows the IBM Spectrum Protect server, database, and recovery log in relation to each other.