IBM Performance Management

Backing up components

The Performance Management server components are backed up and restored with the backup.sh and restore.sh scripts. Use the backup.sh to complete an online backup of the DB2® databases. If the databases are not configured for online backup, an offline backup is completed.

If your system is connected to a remote DB2 database on an external system, copy the install_dir/ccm/backup.sh script to the system where the DB2 server is installed and run the backup.sh script. As a result, only the DB2 Performance Management databases are backed up.

Before you back up the Performance Management infrastructure installation, ensure that you create a location on your file system, such as a mounted NFS drive, to store the output of the backup command.

Tip: When you run the backup.sh or restore.sh scripts, if you provide a custom password that has non-alphanumeric characters, you must surround the password with single quotation marks. For example, /opt/custom/ccm/backup.sh -p 'Z!@12ws*'

To list all available parameters for the backup and restore scripts, run the script with the -h option. You can use the -i db2 option to backup the DB2 Performance Management databases only.

Use the -q inst option to prevent all users connecting to the DB2 database instance. As a result, backup and restore tasks always run successfully. You must apply Performance Management server interim fix 11 before you can use the -q inst option. Interim fixes for the Performance Management server version 8.1.3 are available to download from IBM Fix Central. Note, when you use the -q inst option, it can prevent connections to other databases under that DB2 database instance. For more information about QUIESCE, see the QUIESCE command.