Overview of online backup and restore procedures for Security Directory Server

You can have an overview of online backup and restore procedures for Security Directory Server through the information provided here.

When a Security Directory Server database is created, only circular logging is enabled for it. This means that log files are reused in a circular fashion, and are not saved or archived. With circular logging, rollforward recovery is not possible but crash recovery is possible. The directory server must be stopped and should be offline when backups are taken. Before performing online backups, administrators must plan a strategy to manage the DB2® log files that will be needed to perform a restore from an online backup.