Backing up user data for Sametime meeting rooms

All IBM® Sametime® meeting room user data is stored in an IBM DB2® database, and can be backed up using the DB2 backup commands.

About this task

The default Sametime configuration requires that DB2 be shut down for backup. This is because by default, DB2 is configured to reuse the recovery logs. If you want online backup, the database can be configured to archive the recovery logs. In that case, the database is backed up, and all archived recovery logs are backed up. The recovery logs that have been backed up must also be periodically removed. If the database runs out of space to archive the recovery logs, the database will stop accepting changes until space is available.

Database backup and recovery is fully outlined in the DB2 product documentation. See "Backup overview."

Example for online backup

db2 update database configuration for STMS using logretain on
db2stop
db2start

Perform an offline backup to be kept:

db2 backup database STMS

Afterwards, you can perform online backups:

db2 backup database STMS online include logs