Commands and scripts

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A list of various commands and scripts that are used with IBM® Storage Protect Snapshot operations is provided.

About this task

You can issue various commands for example to trigger a snapshot backup or snapshot restore. In addition, administrative tasks such as to start or stop IBM Storage Protect Snapshot can be issued from the command line.

Procedure

  • Use -d database-name to specify the database name when you use the -F option. There is no default value.
  • Use -i instance-name to specify the instance name that applies to the command you are running. This option is must be specified in the -F option. There is no default value.

Example

  • -d is the database name as shown in the command db2 list database directory
  • -i is the instance name as returned from the db2ilist command