IBM’s Power Private Cloud Rack for Db2 Warehouse Solution – Chapter 5: Backup & Restore
By John Bell, Jana Wong, Peter Kokosielis
High-performance infrastructure is only as effective as its ability to recover from failure. In today’s analytics-driven environments—where data warehouses power both strategic insights and operational intelligence—backup and recovery processes must operate seamlessly alongside active workloads. A modern backup strategy should emphasize flexible, granular recovery capabilities that prioritize active data, reduce the need to continually back up inactive data and enable precise correction of failures with minimal operational impact.
This blog post explores backup and restore strategies on IBM’s Power Private Cloud Rack (PCR), which play a critical role in maintaining data integrity, minimizing downtime, and achieving defined recovery objectives. It outlines how to plan an effective recovery strategy, architect for resilience by establishing recovery time and recovery point objectives (RTO/RPO), enabling surgical restore capabilities, and performing live backups without disrupting ETL operations. By focusing on the most likely failure scenarios and backing up only active data, this approach supports scalable, efficient, and resilient recovery operations.
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