Snapshot backup and restore on IBM® Db2 Warehouse

Snapshot backups have significant advantages over traditional backups. They are completed quickly, regardless of database size, and they allow for fast recovery. Also, snapshots don’t impact many database operations, except momentarily pausing operations that perform writes.

Snapshots are typically on the same storage infrastructure as your data warehouse. Therefore, if you want to use the snapshots as an archive, ensure that you have a strategy for storing them elsewhere.