You can use full and incremental backups to restore a database
to its most current state. Snapshot database backups are complete
database copies of a point in time.
About this task
You can restore a database to its most current state if the
last backup series that was created for the database is available.
A backup series consists of a full backup, the latest incremental
backup, and all active and archive logs for database changes since
the last backup in the series was run.
Attention: Recovering
the database to its most current state is not possible if the active
or archive logs are lost.
Procedure
To restore a database to its most current state, issue
the DSMSERV RESTORE DB command. For
example:
dsmserv restore db
If the original
database and recovery log directories are available, use the DSMSERV
RESTORE DB utility to restore the database. However, if
the database and recovery log directories are lost, re-create them
first, and then issue the DSMSERV RESTORE DB utility.