Performing an incremental backup
An incremental backup is a backup image that contains only pages that have been updated since the previous backup was taken. In addition to updated data and index pages, each incremental backup image also contains all of the initial database metadata (such as database configuration, table space definitions, database history, and so on) that is normally stored in full backup images.
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In order to perform an incremental backup, you must first perform a full backup. Then you can issue an incremental backup command, as below:
db2 backup db ${DBNAME} on all dbpartitionnums online incremental to backupdir include logs without promptingTo restore from an increment backup see: Restoring from an incremental backup.