• “Hot” backup
• Multiple backup modes
• Easy to use graphical user interface
• Selectable database backup operations
• Multiple database servers operating on one machine

NetVault Features:

• Uses native NetVault API for application i n t e g r a t i o n
• Easy to use administration GUI for UNIX, N T, and Linux Point and click install of APM
to servers or clients across networks
• Extensive media verification T h re s h o l d - t r i g g e red backup
• Allows pre and post processing scripts
• S u p p o rts raw devices and file systems
• Extensive low level error checking, logging and re porting
• Tu r b o Vault provides tunable shared main memory and block size for optimized performance
• Local or remote backup and re c o v e ry
• SAN LAN-free backup
• Duplication for off-site disaster re c o v e ry
• Dynamically Shared Devices (DSDTM) allows l i b r a ry sharing across SANs or shared SCSI
• DirecS ANTM client transfer eliminates the backup server from the data path for maximum SAN performance
• Disk staging for increased performance across networks
• Supports as many data streams as there are devices
• Standard, non-proprietary tape formats, CPIO for UNIX and MTF for NT

As storage environments have ex p e rienced rapid gr owth, so has the importance of data management and stora g e. The increasing size and number of DB2 applications brings to the forefront the need for a storage management solution that protects important corp o rate assets while keeping the application running and ava i l a bl e. The DB2 Universal Database application module fo r N e t Vault 6 increases application availability by providing fast, online backups of DB2 databases.

S t o r age Management for DB2 Administrators

The DB2 Application Plugin Module (APM) provides increased application availability via fast, online backup of DB2 databases in UNIX, Linux, and W i n d ow sTM NT environments. The APM includes a wide va riety of important features such as hot back up, support for multiple database servers on a single machine, a variety of backup operations and selectable backup options.

Online mode: With the NetVault DB2 APM, user databases remain online and fully accessible during backup operations, minimizing downtime for users.

Offline mode: Access to the database is in exclusive mode; only the NetVault backup job itself can be connected to the database.

Support for Multi-homing: The DB2 APM displays all available servers, even when multiple database servers are operating on one machine. Backup and restore operations can be performed on any or all available DB2 servers.

Selectable Database Backup Operations: The DB2 APM allows you to backup tablespaces and offline archived log files.