Using Parallelism for Enhancing DB2 Restore Performance

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You can improve restore operation performance by using parallelism.

If the database contains a large number of table spaces and indexes, you can perform a restore operation more quickly when you set a maximum number of concurrent parallelism queries. This takes advantage of the available input/output bandwidth and processor power of the DB2 server.

Procedure

  1. From the CommCell Browser, expand Client Computers> client> DB2 > instance.

  2. Right-click the backup_set, point to All Tasks, and then click Browse and Restore.

  3. On the Browse and Restore dialog box, select Latest Backup and click View Content.

  4. Select the database and click Recover All Selected.

    The Restore Options dialog box is displayed.

  5. On the Recover Database tab, clear the Recover DB check box.

  6. On the Restore Arguments tab, select Offline Restore.

  7. In the Parallelism box, type the maximum number of parallelism queries to enhance your restore operation.

  8. On the Restore Arguments tab, in the Backup Images area, choose an option for selecting backup images:

    • To let the Commvault software select the latest backup images or the latest point-in-time backup images, based on the choice you made on the Time Range tab on the Browse and Restore dialog box, choose Auto Pick Backup Images.

    • To manually select a cycle of backup images, choose Select Backup Images. Select the images from the Available Images box, and then click > to move the selected images to the Selection box.

  9. Click OK.

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