Cloud Pak for Data online backup and restore

Cluster administrators or users with a similar role can create online backups of a IBM Cloud Pak for Data instance and restore a backup to the same cluster or to a different cluster.

Options What to do
You want to create backups. Create backups with one of the following products:
  1. The Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility
  2. IBM Storage Fusion
  3. NetApp Astra Control Center
You want to restore a backup to the same cluster. Restore backups to the same cluster with one of the following products:
  1. The Cloud Pak for Data OADP backup and restore utility
  2. IBM Storage Fusion
  3. NetApp Astra Control Center
You want to restore a backup to a different cluster. Restore an online backup with one of the following products:

About backing up Db2, Db2 Warehouse, and dependent services

To ensure data consistency when online backups are taken, all Db2 databases are write-suspended when volume snapshots are created. Write suspending Db2 databases impacts the following dependent services:

  • Db2 Big SQL
  • Data Virtualization
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